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The 2024 Texas's 18th congressional district special election was a special election that was held on November 5, 2024, [1] to choose a new member of the U.S. House of Representatives. The seat became vacant when incumbent Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee died on July 19, 2024.
Texas voters decided whether to reject or approve 14 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. Here's a look at the results.
The 2023 Texas elections were held on November 7, 2023. [1] Texas voters statewide voted on 14 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. A special election took place to fill the vacancy from Texas's 2nd House of Representatives district, [2] which was followed by a runoff on January 30, 2024. [3]
The ballot language: “The constitutional amendment relating to the Texas University Fund, which provides funding to certain institutions of higher education to achieve national prominence as ...
Seats up for election were all seats of the Texas Legislature, [2] all 38 seats in the United States House of Representatives, and the Class I seat to the United States Senate, for which two-term incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz ran for and won re-election. [3] In addition, Texas counties, cities, and school and other special districts had ...
If you are eligible, download an application for a ballot by mail from votetexas.gov (a website run by the Texas secretary of state's office) and mail it to the election clerk in your county.
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. [27]
Texas's location in the American South and largely in the greater Bible Belt has given the Republican Party the upper hand in the state in recent decades. [92] Trump received the most raw votes for a political candidate ever in Texas, breaking his own record from 2020 by over 500,000. The Democratic vote total fell by 425,000 between 2020 and 2024.