| Turnout | Lloyd Bentsen* (D) |
Beau Boulter (R) |
Jeff Daiell (Libertarian) |
Other | Margin | TOTAL | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOTAL | 52% | 5,645 | 58.4% | 3,956 | 40.9% | 72 | 0.7% | 0 | 0.0% | 1,689 | 9,673 |
Campaign finance data for this election**:
| Lloyd Bentsen* | |
| Total Disbursements: | $9,467,641 |
| Total Receipts: | $9,541,579 |
| Cash on Hand: | $86,737 |
| Candidate Contributions: | $0 |
| Candidate Loans: | $0 |
| Individual Contributions: | $5,685,863 |
| Party Contributions: | $5,976 |
| Other Committee Contributions: | $2,578,116 |
| Other Committee Transfers: | $0 |
| Indep. Expenditures Supporting: | $56,910 |
| Indep. Expenditures Opposing: | $198 |
| Net Independent Expenditures: | $56,712 |
| Net Spending: | $9,524,353 |
| Beau Boulter | |
| Total Disbursements: | $1,353,345 |
| Total Receipts: | $1,347,834 |
| Cash on Hand: | $4,013 |
| Candidate Contributions: | $0 |
| Candidate Loans: | $0 |
| Individual Contributions: | $1,207,273 |
| Party Contributions: | $33,683 |
| Other Committee Contributions: | $101,211 |
| Other Committee Transfers: | $0 |
| Indep. Expenditures Supporting: | $0 |
| Indep. Expenditures Opposing: | $0 |
| Net Independent Expenditures: | $0 |
| Net Spending: | $1,353,345 |
**Financial data shown here takes into account all elections for this office during this cycle, including primary, special and runoff elections, if any.
Source: https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/senate/TX/1988