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Francisco Canseco
Francisco Canseco (Republican Party) was a member of the U.S. House, representing Texas' 23rd Congressional District.
Canseco (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 21st Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on March 6, 2018.
Attorney Francisco "Quico" Canseco represented Texas' 23rd Congressional District in Congress from 2011 to 2013 until he was defeated by Democratic challenger Pete Gallego. He was also a 2014 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 23rd Congressional District of Texas, but lost the election.[1]
Canseco's professional experience includes serving as the president and director of FMC Developers, the chairman of Texas Heritage Bancshares, and as counsel to Escamilla and Ponek. He also operated his own law practice for five years. Canseco earned his J.D. and bachelor's degrees from St. Louis University.[2]
Biography
Canseco is a first-generation American, as his parents immigrated to the United States from Mexico. After earning his bachelor's and J.D. From St. Louis University, Canseco worked in banking law. This eventually led him to begin working in the finance sector.[3]
Career
- 2011-2013: U.S. House of Representatives
Committee assignments
U.S. House
2011-12
Canseco served on the following House committees:[4]
- Financial Services Committee
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations[5]
Issues
Specific votes
Fiscal Cliff
Canseco voted against the fiscal cliff compromise bill, which made permanent most of the Bush tax cuts originally passed in 2001 and 2003 while also raising tax rates on the highest income levels. He was 1 of 151 Republicans that voted against the bill. The bill was passed in the House by a 257 - 167 vote on January 1, 2013.[6]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 21
Chip Roy defeated Joseph Kopser and Lee Santos in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 21 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Chip Roy (R) | 50.2 | 177,654 |
 | Joseph Kopser (D)  | 47.6 | 168,421 | |
 | Lee Santos (L) | 2.1 | 7,542 | |
| Total votes: 353,617 | |||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 21
Joseph Kopser defeated Mary Wilson in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 21 on May 22, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joseph Kopser | 57.9 | 14,765 |
 | Mary Wilson | 42.1 | 10,722 | |
| Total votes: 25,487 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 21
Chip Roy defeated Matt McCall in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 21 on May 22, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Chip Roy | 52.7 | 18,088 |
 | Matt McCall | 47.3 | 16,243 | |
| Total votes: 34,331 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 21
Mary Wilson and Joseph Kopser advanced to a runoff. They defeated Derrick Crowe and Elliott McFadden in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 21 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mary Wilson | 30.9 | 15,736 |
| ✔ | | Joseph Kopser | 29.0 | 14,787 |
 | Derrick Crowe | 23.1 | 11,742 | |
 | Elliott McFadden | 17.0 | 8,667 | |
| Total votes: 50,932 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 21
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 21 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Chip Roy | 27.1 | 19,428 |
| ✔ | | Matt McCall | 16.9 | 12,152 |
 | William Negley | 15.5 | 11,163 | |
 | Jason Isaac | 10.0 | 7,208 | |
 | Jenifer Sarver | 5.6 | 4,027 | |
 | Robert Stovall | 4.8 | 3,414 | |
 | Susan Narvaiz | 3.8 | 2,720 | |
 | Francisco Canseco | 3.5 | 2,489 | |
 | Ryan Krause | 3.2 | 2,300 | |
 | Al Poteet | 1.8 | 1,300 | |
 | Peggy Wardlaw | 1.8 | 1,285 | |
| Samuel Temple | 1.4 | 1,020 | ||
 | Anthony White | 1.3 | 952 | |
 | Eric Burkhart | 1.0 | 723 | |
 | Mauro Garza | 0.9 | 663 | |
 | Autry Pruitt | 0.6 | 455 | |
| Foster Hagen | 0.5 | 394 | ||
 | Ivan Andarza | 0.1 | 96 | |
| Total votes: 71,789 | |||
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2014
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Will Hurd |
41% | 10,496 | ||
| Francisco Canseco |
40.3% | 10,332 | ||
| Robert Lowry | 18.7% | 4,796 | ||
| Total Votes | 25,624 | |||
| Source: Texas Secretary of State |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Will Hurd |
59.5% | 8,699 | ||
| Francisco Canseco | 40.5% | 5,930 | ||
| Total Votes | 14,629 | |||
| Source: Texas Secretary of State Note: Vote totals above are unofficial and will be updated once official totals are made available. |
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2012
Canseco ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House to represent Texas' 23rd District. He ran unopposed in the Republican primary on May 29, 2012. He was defeated by Pete Gallego (D) in the general election on November 6, 2012.[7][8]
In 2011 redistricting, The Hill published a list of the Top Ten House Members who were helped by redistricting.[9] Canseco ranked 3rd on the list.[9] The article notes that in the redistricting process, Republican legislators were "careful when they redrew the district not to bring down the district’s Hispanic percentage in order to avoid violating the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voters."[9] Instead, redistricting switched out high-voting Democratic Hispanic areas with areas that have lower turnout.[9] According to the article, if the district stands up to legal scrutiny, Canseco will be in a better position heading into the 2012 election.
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Pete Gallego |
50.3% | 96,676 | |
| Republican | Francisco Canseco Incumbent | 45.6% | 87,547 | |
| Libertarian | Jeffrey C. Blunt | 3% | 5,841 | |
| Green | Ed Scharf | 1.1% | 2,105 | |
| Total Votes | 192,169 | |||
| Source: Texas Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
2010
On November 2, 2010, Canseco won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, defeating incumbent Ciro D. Rodriguez (D), Craig T. Stephens (Independent), Martin Nitschke (Libertarian), and Ed Scharf (Green).[10]
| U.S. House, Texas District 23 General Election, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Francisco "Quico" Canseco |
49.4% | 74,853 | |
| Democratic | Ciro D. Rodriguez Incumbent | 44.4% | 67,348 | |
| Independent | Craig T. Stephens | 3.6% | 5,432 | |
| Libertarian | Martin Nitschke | 1.6% | 2,482 | |
| Green | Ed Scharf | 0.9% | 1,419 | |
| Total Votes | 151,534 | |||
Campaign finance summary
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Analysis
Congressional staff salaries
The website Legistorm compiles staff salary information for members of Congress. Canseco paid his congressional staff a total of $733,805 in 2011. Overall, Texas ranked 27th in average salary for representative staff. The average U.S. House of Representatives congressional staff was paid $954,912.20 in fiscal year 2011.[11]
Net worth
2011
Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org, Canseco's net worth as of 2011 was estimated between $-336,966 to $1,079,997. That averages to $371,515, which is lower than the average net worth of Republican House members in 2011 of $7,859,232. His average calculated net worth[12] decreased by 52.64% from 2010.[13]
2010
Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org, Green's net worth as of 2010 was estimated between $49,037 to $1,519,998. That averages to $784,517.50 which is lower than the average net worth of Republican representatives in 2010 of $7,561,133.[14]
National Journal vote ratings
- See also: National Journal vote ratings
2012
Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of Congress voted in the previous year. Canseco ranked 23rd in the conservative rankings among members of the U.S. House.[15]
2011
Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of Congress voted in the previous year. Canseco was tied with one other member of the U.S. House of Representatives, ranking 54th in the conservative rankings among members of the U.S. House.[16]
Voting with party
November 2011
Canseco voted with the Republican Party 95.3 percent of the time, which ranked 23 among the 242 House Republican members as of November 2011.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many
Recent news
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See also
- Texas' 21st Congressional District election, 2018
- United States House of Representatives
- Texas' 23rd Congressional District elections, 2014
- Texas' 23rd Congressional District
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Associated Press, "Election Results May 27, 2014," accessed May 27, 2014
- ↑ Official House website, "Biography," accessed October 31, 2011
- ↑ Official House website, "Biography," accessed October 31, 2011
- ↑ Official House website, "Committee Assignments," accessed October 31, 2011
- ↑ The Committee on Financial Services, Chairman Spencer Bachus, "Oversight and Investigations" (dead link)
- ↑ U.S. House, "Roll Call Vote on the Fiscal Cliff," accessed January 4, 2013
- ↑ Texas GOP, "Republican candidate list," accessed May 10, 2012
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "Unofficial Republican primary results," May 29, 2012
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 The Hill, "House members most helped by redistricting," accessed April 17, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ LegiStorm, "Francisco Canseco," accessed September 13, 2012
- ↑ This figure represents the total percentage growth from either 2004 (if the member entered office in 2004 or earlier) or the member's first year in office (as noted in the chart below).
- ↑ OpenSecrets, "Francisco Canseco (R-Texas), 2011," accessed February 25, 2013
- ↑ OpenSecrets, "Francisco Conseco (R-Texas), 2010," accessed September 13, 2012
- ↑ National Journal, "2012 Congressional Vote Ratings," March 7, 2013
- ↑ National Journal, "Searchable Vote Ratings Tables: House," accessed February 23, 2012
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Ciro Rodriguez |
U.S. House of Representatives - Texas, 23rd District 2011-2013 |
Succeeded by Pete Gallego |
