Editing Sam Johnson (section)

====Selected elections====

===== 2004 =====
{{see also|2004 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas#District 3|2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas#District 3|2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas#District 3}}
Johnson ran unopposed by the [[United States Republican Party|Republican Party]] in his district in the 2004 election. Paul Jenkins, an independent, and James Vessels, a member of the [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian Party]], ran against Johnson. Johnson won overwhelmingly in a highly Republican district. Johnson garnered 86% of the vote (178,099), while Jenkins earned 8% (16,850) and Vessels 6% (13,204).<ref name="Roll Call">{{cite web|title=Member Profile – Sam Johnson, R|url=http://media.cq.com/members/460|access-date=May 27, 2020|publisher=[[Roll Call]]}}</ref>

===== 2006 =====
Johnson ran for re-election in 2006, defeating his opponent Robert Edward Johnson in the Republican [[Partisan primary|primary]], 85 to 15 percent.<ref name="state1">{{cite web |url=http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist.exe |title=Archived copy |access-date=February 22, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109062336/http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist.exe |archive-date=January 9, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/DN-usreprndp_08met.ART.State.Edition3.aae3.html |title=News for Dallas, Texas &#124; Dallas Morning News &#124; Dallas-Fort Worth Politics &#124; The Dallas Morning News |publisher=Dallasnews.com |date=March 8, 2006 |access-date=August 29, 2010}}</ref>

In the general election, Johnson faced Democrat Dan Dodd and Libertarian Christopher J. Claytor.  Both Dodd and Claytor are [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] graduates.  Dodd was a U.S. Air Force officer who served in Vietnam,<ref>{{cite news|title=Texas candidates for State Representative, Governor, State Cabinet, U.S. Senator and Congress|url=http://www.ntxe-news.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=15&num=31207&printer=1|date=January 12, 2006|access-date=May 27, 2020|newspaper=North Texas e-News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528092451/http://www.ntxe-news.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=15&num=31207&printer=1|archive-date=May 28, 2020}}</ref> while Claytor served in [[Operation Southern Watch]] in Kuwait in 1992.<ref>{{cite news|title=Christopher Claytor, candidate for United States Representative|url=https://voterguide.dallasnews.com/2018-general/candidates/465/|access-date=May 28, 2020|newspaper=The Dallas Morning News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528091703/https://voterguide.dallasnews.com/2018-general/candidates/465/|archive-date=May 28, 2020}}</ref>  It was only the fourth time that Johnson had faced Democratic opposition.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-14gbMQftG0C&pg=PA89|title=Representing Texas|publisher=BookSurge Publishing|year=2007|last=Guttery|first=Ben R.|page=84|isbn=9781419678844}}</ref>

Johnson retained his seat, taking 62.5% of the vote, while Dodd received 34.9% and Claytor received 2.6%.<ref>{{cite news|title=County goes Democratic; Republicans hold state, national posts|url=https://starlocalmedia.com/mesquitenews/news/county-goes-democratic-republicans-hold-state-national-posts/article_31e02964-05d6-5174-959f-4cb8b4ae0033.html|first=Brian|last=Porter|date=November 14, 2006|access-date=May 28, 2020|newspaper=Mesquite News}}</ref>  However, this was by far less a margin of victory then in past years, when Johnson won by 80 percent or more.<ref name="Roll Call"/>

===== 2008 =====
Johnson retained his seat in the House of Representatives by defeating Democrat Tom Daley and Libertarian nominee Christopher J. Claytor in the 2008 general election. He won with 60 percent of the vote, an unusually low total for such a heavily Republican district.<ref name="state1"/>

===== 2010 =====
Johnson won re-election with 66.3 percent of the vote against Democrat John Lingenfelder (31.3 percent) and [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]] Christopher Claytor (2.4 percent).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/texas|title=Texas Election Results 2010|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|year=2010|access-date=March 15, 2011}}</ref>

===== 2014 =====
Johnson handily won re-nomination to his twelfth full term in the U.S. House in the Republican primary held on March 4. He polled 30,943 votes (80.5 percent); two challengers, Josh Loveless and Harry Pierce, held the remaining combined 19.5 percent of the votes cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/mar04_169_state.htm?x=0&y=218&id=176|title=Republican primary election returns, March 4, 2014|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|access-date=March 6, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140305180619/https://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/mar04_169_state.htm?x=0&y=218&id=176|archive-date=March 5, 2014}}</ref>

===== 2016 =====
Johnson won reelection to his 13th full term in the general election held on November 8, 2016. With 193,684 votes (61.2 percent), he defeated Democrat Adam P. Bell, who polled 109,420 (34.6 percent). Scott Jameson and Paul Blair, the nominees of the Libertarian and [[Green Party (United States)|Green]] parties, polled 10,448 votes (3.3 percent) and 2,915 (0.92 percent), respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist319_state.htm|title=Election Results|date=November 8, 2016|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|access-date=December 17, 2016}}</ref>

===== 2018 =====
Three days after being sworn in for his 14th term overall and his 13th full term, Johnson announced he would not run for reelection.<ref name=Politicoretire/>