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Stephenson won a second term in the general election held on November 4, 2014, when he defeated Democrat Cynthia Drabek. He won again 2016 and 2018. In the general election on November 6, 2018, he defeated a Democratic opponent, Jennifer Cantu, to secure his fourth term. Stephenson polled 31,977 votes (56.5%) to Cantu's 24,618 (43.5%).

In 2013, Stephenson supported the ban on abortion after 20 weeks of gestation; the measure passed the House, 96-49. He co-sponsored companion legislation to increase medical and licensing requirements of abortion providers. These issues brought forth an unsuccessful filibuster in the Texas State Senate from Wendy R. Davis of Fort Worth, who in 2014 was the Democratic nominee for governor. The Texas Right to Life Committee rated him 78% favorable on pro-life.

In 2013, Stephenson's rating from Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum, managed in Texas by Cathie Adams, a former state chairman of the Texas Republican Party, was 73% favorable. The Young Conservatives of Texas ranked him 55%. The Texas League of Conservation Voters scored him 71%. The interest group, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, founded by Michael Quinn Sullivan, rated him 40 percent favorable, a low ratings for a Republican lawmaker. However, the Texas Association of Business in 2013 scored him 87% favorable. The National Rifle Association rated him 92%.

In 2012, House District 85 was fully reconfigured through redistricting under the 2010 census. Previously represented in West Texas by Republican Jim Landtroop of Plainview, where Stephenson had graduated from high school, the district was relocated to Fort Bend, Jackson, and Wharton Counties west of Houston. Landtroop was moved to District 88 and unseated after one term in the 2012 Republican primary by Ken King of Canadian in the Texas Panhandle.

From 2000 until his election to the state House, Stephenson was an elected member of the nonpartisan board of trustees of Wharton County Junior College. From 1997 to 2000, he was the chairman of the Wharton County Republican Party. In 2000, Stephenson ran for the District 28 seat in the Texas House, but was defeated by the incumbent Democrat, Robert L. "Robby" Cook, III, 29,937 (63.3%) to 17,321 (36.7%). District 28 then included Bastrop, Colorado, Fayette, and Wharton Counties, east and south of Austin.

Since 1976, Stephenson has owned the accounting firm, Stephenson and Company. After college, he worked as senior accountant for Main Lafrentz and Company in Dallas, Texas. He is a member of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Stephenson is a native of Duncan in Stephens County in southern Oklahoma southwest of Lawton. At some point, he moved to Hale County, north of Lubbock, where he graduated in 1964 from Plainview High School in Plainview. He then attended South Plains College, a community college in Levelland, Texas, and then Texas Tech University in Lubbock, from which he received in 1969 a bachelor of business administration degree.

Phillip Wayne Stephenson (born February 5, 1945), is a certified public accountant from Wharton, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 85 based in Wharton, Fort Bend, and Jackson Counties in the southeastern portion of the state.