Gary Wayne Elkins (born March 15, 1955), is a businessman from his native Houston, Texas, who is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives.
From 1995, with the advent of the George W.
Bush gubernatorial administration, until 2019, Elkins represented District 135 in Harris County.Elkins won his eleventh term in the state House in the general election held on November 4, 2014, when he defeated Democrat Moiz A.
Abbas of Houston.
He won his twelfth term on November 8, 2016, with 26,685 votes (47.7 percent).
He was unseated in his bid for a thirteenth term by Democrat Jon Rosenthal, who polled 28,430 votes (50.8 percent).
Another 866 votes (1.5 percent) went to the Libertarian Party candidate, Paul Bilyeu.