Texas' 29th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Republican primary)

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Texas' 29th Congressional District
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Election details
Filing deadline: December 11, 2023
Primary: March 5, 2024 Primary runoff: May 28, 2024 General: November 5, 2024
How to vote
Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voting in Texas
Race ratings
Cook Political Report: Solid Democratic DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Democratic Inside Elections: Solid Democratic Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic
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A Republican Party primary took place on March 5, 2024, in Texas' 29th Congressional District to determine which Republican candidate would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.

Christian Garcia and Alan Garza advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 29.

All 435 seats were up for election. At the time of the election, Republicans had a 220 to 212 majority with three vacancies. As of June 2024, 45 members of the U.S. House had announced they were not running for re-election. To read more about the U.S. House elections taking place this year, click here.

In the 2022 election in this district, the Democratic candidate won 71.4%-28.6%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have defeated Donald Trump (R) 67.8%-31.0%.

Candidate filing deadline	Primary election	General election
December 11, 2023	March 5, 2024	November 5, 2024

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Texas utilizes an open primary system. Voters do not have to register with a party in advance in order to participate in that party's primary. The voter must sign a pledge stating the following (the language below is taken directly from state statutes)

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The following pledge shall be placed on the primary election ballot above the listing of candidates' names: 'I am a (insert appropriate political party) and understand that I am ineligible to vote or participate in another political party's primary election or convention during this voting year.'

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For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on Texas' 29th Congressional District Republican primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Democratic primary and the general election, see the following pages:

• Texas' 29th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)
• Texas' 29th Congressional District election, 2024

Candidates and election results

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 29

Christian Garcia and Alan Garza advanced to a runoff. They defeated Angel Fierro and Jose Casares in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 29 on March 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Christian Garcia	44.7	3,716
✔		Alan Garza	29.1	2,418
		Angel Fierro	16.2	1,346
		Jose Casares	9.9	825

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 8,305
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Candidate profiles

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Jose Casares

Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "A community Activist known as Voice of Northside advocating for freedom and equality and justice. Worked with other known community activist in Houston area. Majoring in Political Science at the moment. Experienced in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. A leader with empathy and resilience."

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Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.

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A leader must have the courage to speak and stand for justice at all times. Not for greed and power, a quality in politicians now days.

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A vision for the people to prosper and have the right to pursuit happiness as long as they live.

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Unite together and believe in America one more time.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Texas District 29 in 2024.

Angel Fierro

Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I'm Angel Fierro, a Republican candidate for the 29th congressional district. For over two decades, I have called this district my home. It's where my family taught me the values of hard work, respect for neighbors, and the importance of serving with a grateful heart. As a proud Texan born in this great nation, I carry the lessons of my big traditional family with me, ready to serve as your voice in congress. I am currently a grad student pursuing my Master's in Punoic Policy ane Public Administration with The Helms School of Government in Liberty University. My conservative principles align with the core values that make Texas exceptional – limited government, individual freedom, religious freedom, a strong commitment to family. I have a decade of experience supporting local, state, federal representatives and candidates. I've served our community through various ministries and nonprofits: Fierro Ministry, AHF & CT Church, Lakewood, CMC, HAN, Nahpa, Philos Action, Cufi on Campus. I have always volunteered with a heart of joy. I have advocated against Human Trafficking, for online child safety legislation and prolife initiatives. Legislation and laws that I am proud to have supported and advocated for that are now impacting our state: The Heart beat bill, Save the Girls sports and The Chaplains Bill. I am now running for Congress, and I plan to earn the votes of our hardworking folks in CD 29. "

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Key Messages

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Border Security: I believe it is essential our government secures our borders. By ensuring our border is securend this will stop illegal immigration. Illegal immigration funds human and child sex trafficking. By securing our border we will prevent further invasion of men and women who are associated with different terrorist organizations in the world, such as Hezbollah, Hamas and more. Its also essential we adjust the asylum claim process. And give immigration law judges summary judgment and contempt authority.

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Promote American Energy: Ease government energy efficiency mandates, prioritize consumer preferences. Facilitate the adoption of alternative sources like nuclear energy by updating outdated regulations. Current nuclear safety is commendable. We have abundant natural resources that make limiting energy access unnecessary and hurts Americans. I support expanding American Energy. The U.S. has an abundance of natural resources and is the world’s number one producer of petroleum and natural gas. Texas is largest exporter of natural gas in America and we rank 3rd in the entire world. I want to help expand American Energy, this will help many Americans gain access to affordable and sustainable energy.

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Right to Life: I defend Life from beginning to the end, I do not support elective abortions. I do not support PAS, Physicians Assisted Suicide. I believe we have done women a disservice by labeling Miscarriage Management as Abortions. This language is dangerous to a woman. It's a priority to eliminate taxpayer funding for abortions. We should continue to redirect funding toward Life centers in our nation, Life is valuable and deserves our respect and defense. I believe Congress should provide faith-based foster care and adoption agencies with a permanent solution to ensure that they can continue to serve their communities. I oppose any federal bill that makes sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) protected classes.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Texas District 29 in 2024.

Christian Garcia

Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "Christian V. Garcia "CVG" was born in Houston, Texas. Christian is a proud American with a Mexican heritage. His policy is influenced by classical American constitutionalism. A strong supporter of safe and secure borders, immigration reform, and trade policy that puts America and its people first. Garcia graduated from Lone Star College - North Harris. He has years of experience serving his community as a volunteer. His volunteer work includes after-school youth programs, Christian ministries, and tax preparation services. "

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Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.

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To vote for me is to vote againts a Human Trafficking Crisis

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To support me is to support and priorities foreign skilled and licensed professionals

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When you consider my candidacy you are considering the prosperity of future generations

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Texas District 29 in 2024.

Alan Garza

Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I’m Alan Garza: a native Houstonian, an attorney, an engineer, and someone who wants to help revitalize our democracy. We live in a time where political division and extremism have become the norm, distrust in our leaders is growing, and the problems we face are being left unresolved. I'm running to help build a movement that restores faith in our founding principles, our institutions, and each other, while offering solutions to the new challenges the 21st century brings. "

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Key Messages

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Abandon Ideology. I'm running a campaign based on principles, not a checklist from a party platform. I believe in adhering to our Constitution, limited government, defending and improving our institutions, and promoting individual responsibility. All of us, as individuals, and as a nation, need to return to a principle-based approach with respect to policy and decision-making, and we need our leaders to do the same. This is how I'll run my campaign and how I'll make decisions when in Congress.

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Revitalize Democracy and American Institutions. We live in a time where political division and extremism have become the norm, distrust in our leaders is growing, and the problems we face are being left unresolved. One of the root causes for this is that we're not utilizing the democratic processes the Constitution provides. For individuals, that means voting. For elected officials, it means advocating for policies that encourages engagement in the democratic process and supports our institutions, not undermining them with false narratives about stolen elections and voter suppression.

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Build a Conservative Movement for the 21st Century. I believe conservative ideas—such as limited government, the protection of individual freedoms, and the promotion of free markets—are essential principles we must adhere to. However, conservative policies need to be refreshed if they’re going to work in the 21st century, and we need to apply conservative principles to the issues my generation, and the ones that follow, care most about.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Texas District 29 in 2024.

Voting information

See also: Voting in Texas

Election information in Texas: March 5, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

• In-person: Feb. 5, 2024
• By mail: Postmarked by Feb. 5, 2024
• Online: N/A

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

No

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

• In-person: Feb. 23, 2024
• By mail: Received by Feb. 23, 2024
• Online: Feb. 23, 2024

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

• In-person: March 5, 2024
• By mail: Postmarked by March 5, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

N/A

What were the early voting start and end dates?

Feb. 20, 2024 to March 1, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (CST/MST)

Campaign finance

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Jose Casares	Republican Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Angel Fierro	Republican Party	$68	$68	$0	As of February 14, 2024
Christian Garcia	Republican Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Alan Garza	Republican Party	$34,169	$34,169	$0	As of December 5, 2024
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." ** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election. *** Candidate either did not report any receipts or disbursements to the FEC, or Ballotpedia did not find an FEC candidate ID.

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

• District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
• Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
• Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
• State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

• District map
• Competitiveness
• Presidential elections
• State party control

Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Texas.

Texas U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Year	Districts/ offices	Seats	Open seats	Candidates	Possible primaries	Contested Democratic primaries	Contested Republican primaries	% of contested primaries	Incumbents in contested primaries	% of incumbents in contested primaries
2024	38	38	3	160	76	16	23	51.3%	19	54.3%
2022	38	38	6	222	76	17	27	57.9%	19	59.4%
2020	36	36	6	231	72	24	26	69.4%	18	60.0%
2018	36	36	8	212	72	25	21	63.9%	15	53.6%
2016	36	36	2	127	72	13	20	45.8%	19	55.9%
2014	36	36	1	100	72	6	13	26.4%	12	34.3%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Texas in 2024. Information below was calculated on 1/29/2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

In 2024, 164 candidates filed to run for Texas’ 38 U.S. House districts, including 63 Democrats and 101 Republicans. That was 4.3 candidates per district, the lowest number since 2016, when 3.5 candidates ran.

In 2022, the first election after the number of congressional districts in Texas increased from 36 to 38, 5.8 candidates ran per district. In 2020, 6.4 candidates ran, and 5.8 candidates ran in 2018.

The 164 candidates who ran in 2024 were also the fewest total number to run since 2016, when 127 candidates ran. One hundred candidates ran for Texas’ then-36 districts in 2014, the fewest in the decade, while 231 ran in 2020, the decade-high.

Three seats were open. That was the fewest since 2016, when two seats were open. Six seats were open in 2022 and 2020, and eight were in 2018—the decade-high.

Reps. Kay Granger (R-12th) and Michael Burgess (R-26th) retired from public office. Rep. Colin Allred (D-32nd) didn't seek re-election in order to run for the U.S. Senate. Fourteen candidates—10 Democrats and 4 Republicans—ran for the open 32nd district, the most candidates who ran for a seat in 2024.

Thirty-nine primaries—16 Democratic and 23 Republican—were contested this year. That was the fewest since 2016, when 33 were contested. There were 44 contested primaries in 2022, 50 in 2020, and 46 in 2018.

Nineteen incumbents—six Democrats and thirteen Republicans—faced primary challengers this year. That was the same number as 2022, and one more than in 2020.

Three districts—the 9th, the 20th, and the 30th—were guaranteed to Democrats because no Republicans filed to run. Five were guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed to run—the 1st, the 11th, the 13th, the 19th, and the 25th.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+18. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 18 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Texas' 29th the 74th most Democratic district nationally.

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Texas' 29th based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
67.8%	31.0%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district. The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
69.7	28.2	D+41.6

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Texas, 2020

Texas presidential election results (1900-2020)

• 16 Democratic wins
• 15 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	D	D	D	R	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

See also: Party control of Texas state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Texas' congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Texas
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	0	12	12
Republican	2	25	27
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	1	1
Total	2	38	40

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Texas' top four state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in Texas, May 2024
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Greg Abbott
Lieutenant Governor	Dan Patrick
Secretary of State	Jane Nelson
Attorney General	Ken Paxton

State legislature

Texas State Senate

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	11
	Republican Party	19
	Other	0
	Vacancies	1
Total		31

Texas House of Representatives

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	64
	Republican Party	86
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		150

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

Texas Party Control: 1992-2024
Three years of Democratic trifectas  •  Twenty-two years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Governor	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
Senate	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
House	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Texas in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Texas, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Texas	U.S. House	Democratic or Republican	2% of votes cast for governor in the district in the last election, or 500, whichever is less	$3,125.00	12/11/2023	Source
Texas	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	5% of all votes cast for governor in the district in the last election, or 500, whichever is less	N/A	12/11/2023	Source

See also

• Texas' 29th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)
• Texas' 29th Congressional District election, 2024
• United States House elections in Texas, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primaries)
• United States House elections in Texas, 2024 (March 5 Republican primaries)
• United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2024
• United States House Republican Party primaries, 2024
• United States House of Representatives elections, 2024
• U.S. House battlegrounds, 2024

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Footnotes

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Texas' current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

John Cornyn (R)

Ted Cruz (R)

Representatives

District 1

Nathaniel Moran (R)

District 2

Daniel Crenshaw (R)

District 3

Keith Self (R)

District 4

Pat Fallon (R)

District 5

Lance Gooden (R)

District 6

Jake Ellzey (R)

District 7

Lizzie Fletcher (D)

District 8

Morgan Luttrell (R)

District 9

Al Green (D)

District 10

Michael McCaul (R)

District 11

August Pfluger (R)

District 12

Craig Goldman (R)

District 13

Ronny Jackson (R)

District 14

Randy Weber (R)

District 15

Monica De La Cruz (R)

District 16

Veronica Escobar (D)

District 17

Pete Sessions (R)

District 18

Vacant

District 19

Jodey Arrington (R)

District 20

Joaquin Castro (D)

District 21

Chip Roy (R)

District 22

Troy Nehls (R)

District 23

Tony Gonzales (R)

District 24

Beth Van Duyne (R)

District 25

Roger Williams (R)

District 26

Brandon Gill (R)

District 27

Michael Cloud (R)

District 28

Henry Cuellar (D)

District 29

Sylvia Garcia (D)

District 30

Jasmine Crockett (D)

District 31

John Carter (R)

District 32

Julie Johnson (D)

District 33

Marc Veasey (D)

District 34

Vicente Gonzalez (D)

District 35

Greg Casar (D)

District 36

Brian Babin (R)

District 37

Lloyd Doggett (D)

District 38

Wesley Hunt (R)

Republican Party (27)

Democratic Party (12)

Vacancies (1)

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