1880 Texas lieutenant gubernatorial election

Incumbent lieutenant governor Joseph D. Sayers did not run for reelection. At the time, Texas was part of the "Solid South" and the Democratic Party was heavily favored in elections.

The newly formed Greenback Party, a populist agrarian party focused on monetary issues, ran their first ticket for state offices and nominated George W. Givens to be their candidate for lieutenant governor.^[1]

• Leonidas Jefferson Storey, state senator (Democrat)^[2][3]
• August Siemering, publisher of the German language newspaper Freie Presse Für Texas, former teacher (Republican)^[4][5]
• George W. Givens, farmer (Greenback)^[6]

Texas lieutenant gubernatorial election, 1880^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Leonidas Jefferson Storey	172,610	64.77
	Republican	August Siemering	63,066	23.66
	Greenback	George W. Givens	30,838	11.57
Total votes			266,514	100.00
	Democratic hold