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The Texas State Legislature established the district as a majority-Hispanic or Latino district. Democrat Gene Green, a non-Hispanic white, won the first election for the district in 1992 and held it for 13 terms. [5] In November 2017, Green announced that he would retire from Congress and would not run for re-election in 2018.
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 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]
Districts may sometimes retain the same boundaries, while changing their district numbers. The following is a complete list of the 435 current congressional districts for the House of Representatives, and over 200 obsolete districts, and the six current and one obsolete non-voting delegations.
It encompasses parts of northern and eastern Harris County and southern Montgomery County, Texas. From 2002 to 2012, it stretched from Houston's northern suburbs through eastern Harris County, and across Southeast Texas to the Louisiana border. As of the 2000 census, the 2nd district represented 651,619 people.
You can also contact the early voting clerk for state and county elections for early voting locations near you. Tex. Elec. Code. § 83.001 defines the duties of an election clerk as: Set up voting ...
When does early voting start in Texas? Early voting in Texas begins Oct. 21 and ends on Nov. 1. ... date of birth and zip code to find your registration information and the nearest polling location.
After a federal court in Houston ruled Texas' congressional redistricting practices as unconstitutional in Bush v. Martin, effective with the 1966 elections, Harris County was split between three congressional districts. In addition to the existing 8th and 22nd districts, a new 7th district was created on the west side of Houston and Harris County.