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Houston has voted Democratic for more than a decade and is currently liberal leaning, despite being historically conservative. Currently, the majority of Houston elected officials are Democrats, and the city’s mayors have been Democrats for over 40 years. [4]
The maps that passed were widely criticized as racial and partisan gerrymanders designed to keep Republicans in power and reduce the voting power of minorities. [8] [9] News sources specifically noted that both of Texas' new congressional districts were majority white, despite voters of color making up 95% of the state's growth in the previous ...
All fifteen seats of the Texas Board of Education were up for election to four-year terms. The board follows a 2-4-4 term system; members are elected to two-year terms at the beginning of each decade. Prior to the election, the board was made up of nine Republicans and six Democrats.
By October 25, over 80% of 2016 votes were cast (or 43% of registered voters), [172] and by October 29, 50% of registered voters had cast ballots by early in-person and absentee ballot. By October 30, statewide voter turnout, as well as turnout in Harris County, had already surpassed the total of 2016. [173]
In the 2020 elections, Texas voted for the Republican nominee for president Donald Trump by a narrower margin than in 2016, and re-elected the Republican incumbent senator, John Cornyn. In the 2022 governor race, the Republican governor Greg Abbott easily won reelection against Beto O'Rourke. [23] Texas remains a strongly Republican state.
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022 judicial race and ordered that a new election be held in the nation’s third-most ...
The Brennan Center found that in the state’s 2022 primary election, Latino, Asian and Black voters were at least 30% more likely to have application or mail ballots rejected because of the new ...
To vote by mail, registered Texas voters had to request a ballot by October 23, 2020. [2] After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid to expand eligibility for requesting postal ballots, [ 3 ] postal ballots were available only to voters over 65, those sick or disabled, those who were out of their county on election day, and those who were in ...