← Back to Texas Land CommissionerCandidate · November 3, 2026 General Election
Dawn Buckingham
On the ballot for · 4-year term
This race is on every Texas ballot.
Currently holds this office
Background
- Now
- Commissioner, Texas General Land Office
- Before
- Texas State Senate, District 24 (85th, 86th, and 87th Legislatures; Jan 10, 2017 – Jan 10, 2023)
- Work
- Oculoplastic Surgeon (M.D.)
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In their own words
Quoted from Dawn Buckingham’s own official campaign material — what the campaign says the candidate will do. Some campaigns write about their candidate in the third person; the wording is theirs either way. These are the candidate’s claims: PlainDocket doesn’t check, rate or endorse them, and every candidate in a race is quoted the same way, from the same kind of source.
“The General Land Office is the most important state agency that so many Texans have never heard of. As our state's first female Land Commissioner, my job is to manage, maximize, and protect the millions of acres of state lands that stretch from our beautiful coast to the Texas Panhandle, and everywhere in between.”
“Dawn made history in 2016 as the first Republican elected to the Texas State Senate from Travis County, and the first woman to represent Senate District 24. She later made history again in 2022, winning a statewide election to become our state's first female Land Commissioner.”
“Dawn is honored to have contributed almost $6 BILLION in her tenure to public education, and she will continue to be the indelible momma bear, protecting funding for the school children of Texas.”
“Dawn describes herself as "the happiest Land Commissioner ever," as every day she defends our state's rich history, oil and gas industry, and our national border with Mexico.”
Where the money comes from
$2,411,979$2,411,979 in total receipts, through Jun 30, 2026 — Search the Texas Ethics Commission for Dawn Buckingham's filings raised, through Jun 30, 2026
The filing reports a total but doesn’t break it down by source, so there is nothing to chart here.
Official filing:
- This figure is the candidate's own campaign account. Any committee the Texas Ethics Commission records as supporting them is listed separately and is NOT added in — money moved between the two is reported by both, so a combined total would count it twice.
- These lines don't add up to total receipts — receipts also include transfers, loans and refunds, which aren't donations.
- Filing is periodic (semiannual, 30-day, or 8-day pre-election reports). The figure above sums every report filed for the current 2025-2026 election cycle, through the most recent period shown — it can be several months stale depending on where a candidate is in the filing cycle, and excludes activity from any earlier cycle.
- The Texas Ethics Commission and the Federal Election Commission define "total receipts" differently — Texas Ethics Commission figures should never be compared directly against a federal candidate's FEC figures.
Official records
We searched the registries below and found no record for Dawn Buckingham.
Checked 28 July 2026: Texas Legislature (impeachment records) · Texas Ethics Commission (final orders) · State Bar of Texas (attorney discipline) · Texas State Securities Board (enforcement orders). The same registries are searched for every candidate in a race, and each entry describes only what the record itself states — including how it ended. We publish no allegations and no news coverage.
- The Texas Ethics Commission is required by law to keep dismissed complaints, and findings it treats as technical or minor, confidential — so no result there means no publicly-issued final order, not that no complaint was ever filed.
- A State Bar profile shows public disciplinary history the Bar publishes online; older judgments are held by its disciplinary counsel and aren't in that profile.
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