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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]
Petteway v. Galveston County [c] 86 F.4th 1146 (5th Cir. 2023) is a United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit case in which the court held that racial and ethnic groups may not aggregate their populations in Voting Rights Act violation claims.
Williamson County by the third day had a 64,891 votes out of 376,931 people registered to vote, which meant its turnout was already 17.25%. [171] On October 13, Bexar County recorded 78,000 votes, with over 45,000 by mail and the remainder in person. [158] On October 13, El Paso County recorded fewer than 34,000 votes. [158]
The 1,067,968 ballots cast in Harris County also marked the first time that any Texas county would cast more than one million votes. However, this is also the last election where Harris County would vote to the left of any of the five most populous counties in the state, with the exception of Tarrant County.
The coastal county faces a drawn-out trial over claims of intentional discrimination in its 2021 redistricting of commissioners court precincts. The only district in which Black and Latino voters ...
It formerly covered the area south and southwest of the Greater Houston region, including Galveston, in the state of Texas. The district was created as a result of the 1900 U.S. census and was first contested in 1902. The Galveston area had previously been included in Texas's 10th congressional district.
This increased competitiveness was largely explained by the fast-growing Texas Triangle trending leftwards in some elections, namely in the closely-contested 2018 U.S. Senate race and the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which saw the Metroplex county of Tarrant and the Greater Austin counties of Williamson and Hays flip to the Democratic ...
Galveston, Harris: 35 Jerry E. Patterson: Republican: January 12, 1993 – January 12, 1999 73rd 74th 75th: Brazoria, Galveston, Harris: 36 Mike Jackson: Republican: January 12, 1999 – January 8, 2013 76th 77th 78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd: 37 Larry Taylor: Republican: January 8, 2013 – January 10, 2023 83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th: 38 Mayes ...