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The Memorial Villages and a portion of the city of Houston are also located within the district. The district was created in the redistricting after the 2020 census, where Texas gained two seats in the House. The district was first contested in the 2022 House elections, sending a member to the 118th United States Congress. [4] [3]
The incumbent is Republican Pat Fallon, who was re-elected with 66.71% of the vote in 2022. [1] On November 13, 2023, Fallon announced he would not seek another term in Congress and would instead run for his old seat in the Texas Senate. However, the next day, Fallon reversed course and said he would run for re-election to the House. [29]
The winners of this election will serve in the 89th Texas Legislature. It was held alongside numerous other federal, state, and local elections, including the 2024 U.S. presidential election and the 2024 Texas Senate election. Primary elections were held on March 5, 2024, with runoff primaries taking place, if necessary, on May 28, 2024. [2]
The elections department in Harris County, which includes Houston and is the state’s most populous county with nearly 5 million residents, said voting will be extended until 8 p.m. local time at ...
Senate Bill 924, as originally written by a North Texas Republican, state Sen. Drew Springer, gave smaller counties that don’t use countywide voting the option to combine precincts. Lawmakers ...
About 125,000 turned out to vote in Harris County, home of Houston — half again as many as turned out in the general election of 2016, the last year for which there are statistics from the Texas ...
2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas: District 18 [8] Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Sheila Jackson Lee (incumbent) 180,952 : 73.3 : Republican: Wendell Champion 58,033 23.5 Libertarian: Luke Spencer 4,514 1.8 Independent: Vince Duncan 3,396 1.4 Total votes 246,895 : 100.0 : Democratic hold
The 135th district of the Texas House of Representatives contains parts of north-central Houston. The current representative is Jon Rosenthal , who was first elected in 2018 after defeating a 12-term incumbent.