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Republican voters also strongly supported several other propositions addressing issues such as property taxes, immigration, and education.
Republican primary voters across Texas overwhelmingly supported a ballot proposition calling for the prohibition of Sharia law, according to unofficial results from the March 2026 Primary Election.
The measure—Proposition 10—asked voters whether Texas should prohibit the use of Sharia law. The proposition was one of 10 non-binding questions placed on the Republican primary ballot by the Republican Party of Texas to gauge grassroots priorities ahead of the party’s 2026 convention and the 2027 legislative session.
The propositions are advisory only but are often used by party activists and lawmakers to shape the party platform and future legislative priorities.
The strong support for prohibiting Sharia law comes amid heightened scrutiny of Islamist influence in Texas institutions.
Gov. Greg Abbott, who has promoted the anti-Sharia law proposition, brought more attention to the issue late last year when he declared the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations under Texas law.
Attorney General Ken Paxton has since sued the organizations to stop their operation in Texas.
“Even though I’ve signed a law that bans Sharia law in the state of Texas, this is going to be something that we take going into the next session and make more crystal clear and more expansive about what the ban on Sharia law is in the state of Texas,” Abbott told Texas Scorecard in an interview last month.
Proposition 9, which asked whether the Republican-controlled Legislature should stop awarding leadership positions—including committee and subcommittee chairmanships and vice chairmanships—to Democrats, passed with 79 percent support.
The issue has been a source of controversy in the House following the adoption of House rules last year that, while banning Democrat chairs, require all vice chairs to be Democrats.
Those rules recently came into focus after State Rep. Ray Lopez, a San Antonio Democrat who serves as vice chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Veterans’ Affairs, attempted to trigger a committee hearing into a fatal 2025 shooting involving a federal immigration agent.
However, no hearing was scheduled. While vice chairs were given new procedural roles, there appears to be no enforcement mechanism requiring a chairman to act on such requests.
Republican voters also strongly supported several other propositions addressing issues such as property taxes, immigration, and education.
Proposition 1: Texas property taxes should be assessed at the purchase price and phased out entirely over the next six years through spending reductions.
Yes: 1,792,508 (88.11%)
No: 241,778 (11.89%)
Proposition 2: Texas should require any local government budget that raises property taxes to be approved by voters at a November general election.
Yes: 1,937,081 (93.76%)
No: 128,828 (6.24%)
Proposition 3: Texas should prohibit denial of healthcare or any medical service based solely on the patient’s vaccination status.
Yes: 1,504,139 (73.18%)
No: 551,255 (26.82%)
Proposition 4: Texas should require its public schools to teach that life begins at fertilization.
Yes: 1,740,012 (84.9%)
No: 309,437 (15.1%)
Proposition 5: Texas should ban gender, sexuality, and reproductive clinics and services in K-12 schools.
Yes: 1,869,444 (90.63%)
No: 193,294 (9.37%)
Proposition 6: Texas should enact term limits on all elected officials.
Yes: 1,876,666 (91.12%)
No: 182,950 (8.88%)
Proposition 7: Texas should ban the large-scale export or sale of groundwater and surface water to any single private or public entity.
Yes: 1,892,220 (93.19%)
No: 138,299 (6.81%)
Proposition 8: The Texas Legislature should reduce the burden of illegal immigration on taxpayers by ending public services for illegal aliens.
Yes: 1,912,478 (92.7%)
No: 150,713 (7.3%)
Proposition 9: The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature should stop awarding leadership positions—including committee chairmanships and vice chairmanships—to Democrats.
Yes: 1,600,728 (79.07%)
No: 423,824 (20.93%)
Proposition 10: Texas should prohibit Sharia law.
Yes: 1,903,489 (94.81%)
No: 104,290 (5.19%)
Republican primary voters across Texas overwhelmingly supported a ballot proposition calling for the prohibition of Sharia law, according to unofficial results from the March 2026 Primary Election.
The measure—Proposition 10—asked voters whether Texas should prohibit the use of Sharia law. The proposition was one of 10 non-binding questions placed on the Republican primary ballot by the Republican Party of Texas to gauge grassroots priorities ahead of the party’s 2026 convention and the 2027 legislative session.
The propositions are advisory only but are often used by party activists and lawmakers to shape the party platform and future legislative priorities.
The strong support for prohibiting Sharia law comes amid heightened scrutiny of Islamist influence in Texas institutions.
Gov. Greg Abbott, who has promoted the anti-Sharia law proposition, brought more attention to the issue late last year when he declared the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations under Texas law.
Attorney General Ken Paxton has since sued the organizations to stop their operation in Texas.
“Even though I’ve signed a law that bans Sharia law in the state of Texas, this is going to be something that we take going into the next session and make more crystal clear and more expansive about what the ban on Sharia law is in the state of Texas,” Abbott told Texas Scorecard in an interview last month.
Proposition 9, which asked whether the Republican-controlled Legislature should stop awarding leadership positions—including committee and subcommittee chairmanships and vice chairmanships—to Democrats, passed with 79 percent support.
The issue has been a source of controversy in the House following the adoption of House rules last year that, while banning Democrat chairs, require all vice chairs to be Democrats.
Those rules recently came into focus after State Rep. Ray Lopez, a San Antonio Democrat who serves as vice chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Veterans’ Affairs, attempted to trigger a committee hearing into a fatal 2025 shooting involving a federal immigration agent.
However, no hearing was scheduled. While vice chairs were given new procedural roles, there appears to be no enforcement mechanism requiring a chairman to act on such requests.
Republican voters also strongly supported several other propositions addressing issues such as property taxes, immigration, and education.
Proposition 1: Texas property taxes should be assessed at the purchase price and phased out entirely over the next six years through spending reductions.
Yes: 1,792,508 (88.11%)
No: 241,778 (11.89%)
Proposition 2: Texas should require any local government budget that raises property taxes to be approved by voters at a November general election.
Yes: 1,937,081 (93.76%)
No: 128,828 (6.24%)
Proposition 3: Texas should prohibit denial of healthcare or any medical service based solely on the patient’s vaccination status.
Yes: 1,504,139 (73.18%)
No: 551,255 (26.82%)
Proposition 4: Texas should require its public schools to teach that life begins at fertilization.
Yes: 1,740,012 (84.9%)
No: 309,437 (15.1%)
Proposition 5: Texas should ban gender, sexuality, and reproductive clinics and services in K-12 schools.
Yes: 1,869,444 (90.63%)
No: 193,294 (9.37%)
Proposition 6: Texas should enact term limits on all elected officials.
Yes: 1,876,666 (91.12%)
No: 182,950 (8.88%)
Proposition 7: Texas should ban the large-scale export or sale of groundwater and surface water to any single private or public entity.
Yes: 1,892,220 (93.19%)
No: 138,299 (6.81%)
Proposition 8: The Texas Legislature should reduce the burden of illegal immigration on taxpayers by ending public services for illegal aliens.
Yes: 1,912,478 (92.7%)
No: 150,713 (7.3%)
Proposition 9: The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature should stop awarding leadership positions—including committee chairmanships and vice chairmanships—to Democrats.
Yes: 1,600,728 (79.07%)
No: 423,824 (20.93%)
Proposition 10: Texas should prohibit Sharia law.
Yes: 1,903,489 (94.81%)
No: 104,290 (5.19%)
