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Texas' 7th Congressional District election (March 6, 2018 Democratic primary)
- General election: Nov. 6
- Voter registration deadline: Oct. 9
- Early voting: Oct. 22 - Nov. 2
- Absentee voting deadline: Nov. 7
- Online registration: No
- Same-day registration: No
- Voter ID: Photo ID required
- Poll times: 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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Attorney Lizzie Pannill Fletcher won the Democratic primary runoff on May 22, 2018.
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher and Laura Moser were the top two vote-getters in the Democratic primary for Texas' 7th Congressional District, and they faced each other in a runoff on May 22 since neither received more than 50 percent of the vote. For more information about the primary runoff election, click here.
Democrats are eyeing Texas' 7th Congressional District as a possible pick-up in November. But it’s the March 6 Democratic primary that became a national story, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) advocating against candidate Laura Moser, a self-described “working mom turned progressive activist turned candidate for Congress.”
The DCCC released the opposition research it had compiled on Moser, saying she was “a Washington insider, who begrudgingly moved to Houston to run for Congress.” Independent observers rated the District as Lean Republican or a Toss up.[1][2] In response, Moser said, "It’s something we would expect from the other side but not our own party."[3]
The primary had always been important to Democrats, with both The Hill and Mother Jones calling the race one of the most important in the country. The DCCC targeted the race, too, as part of its "battlefield expansion" strategy against the GOP.[4]
In February 2018, political watchers considered Alex Triantaphyllis and Lizzie Pannill Fletcher as the top candidates due to their fundraising.[5] Mother Jones noted that Emily's List had endorsed Fletcher's candidacy.[6]
Ballotpedia compiled the following resources to help voters better understand this election:
- Overviews of each of the top candidates, including policy positions and campaign themes;
- Major polls, endorsements, campaign ads, campaign finance information, and satellite spending updates;
- A timeline of major events that occur over the course of the election.
Candidates and election results
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 7 on March 6, 2018.
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 7
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lizzie Pannill Fletcher | 29.4 | 9,768 |
| ✔ |  | Laura Moser | 24.3 | 8,099 |
 | Jason Westin | 19.2 | 6,375 | |
 | Alex Triantaphyllis | 15.7 | 5,234 | |
 | Ivan Sanchez | 5.7 | 1,895 | |
| Joshua Butler | 3.8 | 1,253 | ||
 | James Cargas | 2.0 | 651 | |
| Total votes: 33,275 | |||
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Election updates
- March 6, 2018: The primary election is held. Lizzie Pannill Fletcher (D) and Laura Moser (D) advance to a May 22 runoff election, while the remaining five candidates are eliminated.
- March 2, 2018: The Moser campaign releases an ad titled Our Turn. The ad referenced Moser's previous experience with activism and criticized the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's decision to release an opposition research file targeting Moser.
- March 1, 2018: Our Revolution endorses Laura Moser (D).
Runoff candidates
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
An attorney who has not previously sought elected office, Fletcher has worked in international and business law in the past.[7]
In her May 2017 announcement that she would seek the Democratic nomination, Fletcher argued that sitting Rep. John Culberson (R) was not representative of the city of Houston: "I have been talking to Houstonians from across the district, and they agree it is time to replace John Culberson in Congress with someone who represents the Houston we all know: a city that welcomes newcomers from around the world, that prides itself on scientific discovery, that serves as a hub for innovation, and that takes care of its neighbors."[8] Fletcher's campaign website emphasizes her stances on recovery from Hurricane Harvey, infrastructure, and the economy.[9]
Fletcher has received endorsements from EMILY's List, former Rep. Chris Bell (D-TX) and Roe v. Wade attorney Sarah Weddington (D).
Laura Moser
A former journalist whose work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Slate, Moser has not previously sought elected office.
In her May 2017 announcement that she would seek the Democratic nomination, Moser argued that "It’s time to send someone to Washington who knows how it works and wants to use that knowledge to serve the people of Houston — who actually cares about the people who live here."[10] Moser's campaign website describes her as a "working mom turned progressive activist turned candidate for Congress in TX-07" and referenced Daily Action, a political movement opposed to actions taken by President Trump (R) that Moser had founded following the 2016 presidential election.[11] The website describes her campaign as standing "for the values of decency and respect that are the values of the majority of Americans. For the people who think that healthcare is a right and not a privilege; that the economy of the richest country in the world can benefit everyone; that a good education should be available to every child; that every worker deserves a living wage; that caring for the environment is a matter of life and death."[12]
Moser has received endorsements from Our Revolution, Democracy for America and Our Revolution Texas.
List of all candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Joshua Butler
- James Cargas
- Lizzie Pannill Fletcher ✔
- Laura Moser ✔
- Ivan Sanchez
- Alex Triantaphyllis
- Jason Westin
Democratic Party factional conflict
Disputes between candidates endorsed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and candidates outside the official organs of the Democratic Party occurred in U.S. House primaries in 2018.
The DCCC, a campaign arm of the Democratic National Committee, endorsed candidates who party leaders believed had the best chance of defeating Republican incumbents.[13]
Some criticized the DCCC's choices. Ryan Grim and Lee Fang wrote in The Intercept, for example, "In district after district, the national party is throwing its weight behind candidates who are out of step with the national mood."[14]
In this primary, the DCCC endorsed Lizzie Pannill Fletcher.[13]
The chart below shows a scorecard for how the DCCC performed in competitive Democratic primaries that featured at least one DCCC-endorsed candidate and one other Democratic candidate.
| U.S. House Democratic factions | ||||||||||||
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| Faction | Primary victories in 2018 | |||||||||||
| Endorsed by DCCC | 31 | |||||||||||
| Not endorsed by DCCC | 2 | |||||||||||
Campaign themes and policy stances
Policy positions
Below are the top candidates' policy positions, taken from their campaign websites as well as media and campaign appearances. Policy positions are sorted by issue but do not necessarily match up one-to-one. In cases where two candidates have different positions on the same issue, their policy statements on that issue are bolded.
Economy
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
- Supports increased funding for renewable energy.
- Supports increased funding for the science and technology sectors.
- Supports increased funding for vocational training programs.[15]
Laura Moser
- Supports programs which she argues would increase the proportion of small and family-run businesses.[16]
- Supports more stringent data security requirements for corporations that hold individuals' personal information.[17]
- Supports increased funding for transportation and infrastructure.
- Supports issuing tax credits for research and development firms.
- Supports modifications to the tax code which she argues would benefit families and small businesses.
- Opposes provisions in the tax code which she argues favor large corporations.
- Supports efforts to attract energy development firms to Houston.[18]
Education
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
- Supports measures aimed at decreasing differing educational performance among K-12 students of different demographic groups.
- Supports increased emphasis on science, technology, education, and math.
- Supports decreased tuition costs.
- Supports programs that she argues would reduce student loan debt.
- Supports increased funding for community colleges.
- Supports increased funding for vocational programs.[19]
Laura Moser
- Supports increased funding for education, particularly early childhood education.[20]
- Supports measures which she argues would make the quality of education vary less from school to school.[21]
Houston-area flood infrastructure
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
- Supports strengthening the Addicks and Barker Reservoirs.
- Supports the construction of a third reservoir in northwest Harris County.
- Supports the completion of Project Brays.
- Supports revisions to floodplain maps.
- Supports the construction of a coastal surge protection system.
- Supports the use of public-private partnerships.[22]
Laura Moser
- Supports programs which she argues would reduce the damage caused by natural disasters.[20]
- Supports the drafting of a long-term flood management plan with input from municipal, local, state, and federal officials as well as environmental specialists.
- Supports the immediate construction of flood management infrastructure.
- Supports mandated disclosure of flood risks for home buyers in the area.
- Supports buying out residents of flood-prone areas.
- Supports increased funding for Houston-area flood management.
- Supports the expansion of nearby bayous.
- Supports the addition of new retention ponds and reservoirs.[23]
Immigration
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
- Supports allowing immigrants residing in the country without legal permission to be granted a pathway towards citizenship.
- Supports increased security along the border.
- Supports increased penalties for employers who knowingly hire employees who do not have legal permission to reside in the country.
- Opposed to the construction of a wall on the Mexican border.
- Supports the preservation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.[24]
Laura Moser
- Opposes the construction of a wall along the Mexican border.
- Opposes deportation of immigrants residing in the country without legal permission.
- Supports the passage of an immigration measure which would allow immigrants who have resided in the country for an extended period of time without legal permission to obtain legal permission to remain, with particular emphasis on those immigrants who arrived before adulthood.[20]
- Opposes restrictions on travel from certain majority-Muslim countries proposed by President Trump (R).[25]
Healthcare
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
- Opposes efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act without implementing a replacement plan.[26]
Laura Moser
- Supports a single-payer healthcare system.[16]
- Opposes measures which she argues would limit access to healthcare based on pre-existing conditions.[21]
Social issues
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
- Supports a federal Equality Act that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.[27]
- Opposes reductions in funding to Planned Parenthood.
- Opposes reductions in funding to the Title X Family Planning program.
- Supports increased access to contraceptives.
- Opposes efforts to reduce access to abortion.[28]
Laura Moser
- Supports paid family leave for workers with a sick or newborn child or a medical emergency involving an elderly parent.
- Opposes efforts to retract legal recognition of LGBT marriages.[16]
- Supports measures which she argues would reduce disparities in income.
- Supports stricter firearms regulations.[17]
- Supports increased access to contraceptives.
- Opposes efforts to reduce access to abortion.
- Opposes measures which she argues would restrict access to the Internet.[25]
- Supports measures which she argues would eliminate gender as a factor in determining compensation.[21]
Transportation
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
- Supports coordination among local governments to increase funding for Houston-area infrastructure.
- Supports increased transportation funding for the Houston area.[29]
Laura Moser
- Supports programs which she argues would foster the development of additional methods of public transit in the Houston area.[20]
Campaign finance
The table below contains data from FEC Quarterly January 2018 reports. It includes only candidates who have reported at least $10,000 in campaign contributions as of December 31, 2017.[30]
Democrats
Endorsements
| Democratic candidate endorsements | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endorsement | Date | Fletcher | Moser | |||
| Federal officials | ||||||
| Former Rep. Chris Bell (D-TX)[31] | Unknown | ✔ | ||||
| State figures | ||||||
| Former state Rep. Sarah Weddington (D)[31] | Unknown | ✔ | ||||
| Local figures | ||||||
| Houston Mayor pro tem Ellen Cohen[31] | Unknown | ✔ | ||||
| Organizations | ||||||
| Our Revolution[32] | March 1, 2018 | ✔ | ||||
| Our Revolution Texas[33] | February 23, 2018 | ✔ | ||||
| Houston Chronicle[34] | February 8, 2018 | ✔ | ||||
| National Nurses United[35] | January 25, 2018 | ✔ | ||||
| EMILY's List[36] | November 14, 2017 | ✔ | ||||
| Democracy for America[37] | June 30, 2017 | ✔ | ||||
| Off the Sidelines PAC[31] | Unknown | ✔ | ||||
Campaign tactics and strategies
Campaign advertisements
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
Support
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Laura Moser
Support
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Online presence
April 16, 2018
The following social media statistics were compiled on April 16, 2018.
| Candidate | Followers | Likes | Comments on Last Ten Posts | Followers | Following | Tweets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fletcher |
2,940 | 2,768 | 12 | 3,194 | 733 | 544 |
| Moser |
8,622 | 8,259 | 13 | 41,467 | 2,779 | 6,877 |
February 25, 2018
The following social media statistics were compiled on February 25, 2018.
| Candidate | Followers | Likes | Comments on Last Ten Posts | Followers | Following | Tweets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fletcher |
2,611 | 2,468 | 16 | 1,496 | 894 | 411 |
| Moser |
7,646 | 7,329 | 27 | 38,546 | 2,679 | 6,413 |
| Triantaphyllis |
2,549 | 2,388 | 6 | 3,299 | 2,341 | 1,176 |
January 24, 2018
The following social media statistics were compiled on January 28, 2018.
| Candidate | Followers | Likes | Comments on Last Ten Posts | Followers | Following | Tweets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fletcher |
2,396 | 2,275 | 2 | 1,144 | 1,032 | 323 |
| Triantaphyllis |
2,247 | 2,109 | 1 | 2,566 | 1,803 | 1,036 |
Tweets by Lizzie Pannill Fletcher Tweets by Laura Moser
Noteworthy events
DCCC opposition research on Laura Moser
On February 22, 2018, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released opposition research it had conducted on former journalist Laura Moser (D). The opposition research release contained the following statement:
| “ |
Democratic voters need to hear that Laura Moser is not going to change Washington. She is a Washington insider, who begrudgingly moved to Houston to run for Congress. In fact, she wrote in the Washingtonian magazine, “I’d rather have my teeth pulled out without anesthesia” than live in Texas. As of January 2018, she claimed Washington, DC to be her primary residence in order to get a tax break. And she has paid her husband’s Washington, DC political consulting firm over $50,000 from campaign contributions; meaning 1 of every 6 dollars raised has gone to her husband’s DC company.[38] |
” |
| —Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee[1] | ||
In a statement, DCCC communications director Meredith Kelly argued that the research released by the committee would have been uncovered and used against Moser in the general election in the event that she advance past the primary: "Laura Moser’s outright disgust for life in Texas disqualifies her as a general election candidate and would rob voters of their opportunity to flip Texas’s 7th in November."[39] The Moser campaign countered by arguing that "these kind of tactics are why people hate politics. The days where party bosses picked the candidates in their smoke filled rooms are over. DC needs to let Houston vote."[40]
Polls
- See also: Ballotpedia's approach to covering polls
| Texas' 7th Congressional District, 2018 Democratic primary | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Poll | Lizzie Pannill Fletcher (D) | Laura Moser (D) | Jason Westin (D) | Alex Triantaphyllis (D) | James Cargas (D) | Joshua Butler (D) | Ivan Sanchez (D) | Undecided | Margin of error | Sample size | |||||||||
| Congressional Leadership Fund (March 1, 2018) | 28% | 17% | 14% | 13% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 25% | +/-3.63 | 726 | |||||||||
| Note: The polls above may not reflect all polls that have been conducted in this race. Those displayed are a random sampling chosen by Ballotpedia staff. If you would like to nominate another poll for inclusion in the table, send an email to editor@ballotpedia.org. | |||||||||||||||||||
Media coverage
Media reaction to primary outcome
This section provides an overview of media reactions to the election's result. Selected articles are presented as a jumping-off point for deeper exploration of media coverage and as an overview of narratives that emerged surrounding the election.
- Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune (March 6, 2018)
- "The runoff is likely to be a brutal fight that will viscerally divide west Houston – but also the national Democratic Party. The House Democratic campaign arm took the rare step of unloading a heap of opposition research against Moser in the middle of early voting in a bid to keep her out of the runoff. Democrats locally and nationally have expressed doubts about Moser's electability in a general election, worrying that she is too liberal to carry the swing district, among other concerns."[41]
- Lisa Hagen, The Hill (March 7, 2018)
- "The episode has infuriated progressive groups that believe the DCCC targeted Moser to stymie a progressive candidate, reopening the national divide between the two wings of the Democratic Party.
- Even some national party leaders have questioned the DCCC’s move. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez said that he “wouldn’t have” attacked Moser and the party should instead focus on the issues.
- But some argue that a more moderate candidate raises Democrats’ prospects in toppling Culberson. And when the Houston Chronicle endorsed two other candidates in the race, the editorial board cautioned that while Moser has an energetic base, 'even Democrats who like her question whether she's too liberal to win this historically Republican district.'"[42]
- Emily Goodin and Rachel Scott, ABC News (March 7, 2018)
- "Rice political science professor Mark Jones believes the DCCC’s intervention may have backfired because it identified Moser as the most progressive candidate in the race.
- 'In an electorate where many people were voting as much to cast a vote against President Trump as to choose a nominee, Moser served as a great vehicle for that protest,' he said.
- Additionally, voters have demonstrated in the past they don’t like national parties to tell them how to vote."[43]
- Josh Voorhees, Slate (March 7, 2018)
- "But it was the DCCC attack that turned her into a cause célèbre on the left. Sanders-aligned Our Revolution quickly came to her defense with an endorsement of its own, which opened a national small-donor spigot that fueled Moser’s campaign in the closing days of the race. She says she raised more than $100,000 in the six days following the attack, a significant slice of which, the campaign proudly trumpeted, came from small donors outside of her district."[44]
- Ella Nilsen, Vox (March 7, 2018)
- "The DCCC desperately wants to flip the Seventh Congressional District, currently held by Culberson, a Republican. Though the Seventh District has been held by the GOP since the 1960s, it was one of three districts whose residents voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 (the other two are the 23rd Congressional District and the 32nd Congressional District). Democrats are optimistic that they can flip it in November.
- The DCCC views Moser as too risky to run against the Republican incumbent in the general election but also recognizes she is someone who has enough of a following and money to possibly get into the runoff. Hence, the release of the memo."[45]
Timeline
Republican district won by Hillary Clinton
This district was one of 25 Republican-held U.S. House districts that Hillary Clinton (D) won in the 2016 presidential election.[46] Nearly all were expected to be among the House's most competitive elections in 2018.
Click on the table below to see the full list of districts.
Click here to see the 13 Democratic-held U.S. House districts that Donald Trump (R) won.
Early voting in Texas primaries, 2018
Click here to learn about historic early voting turnout for both parties in Texas in 2014 and 2018.
District analysis
- See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index
- See also: FiveThirtyEight's elasticity scores
The 2017 Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was R+7, meaning that in the previous two presidential elections, this district's results were 7 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Texas' 7th Congressional District the 177th most Republican nationally.[51]
FiveThirtyEight's September 2018 elasticity score for states and congressional districts measured "how sensitive it is to changes in the national political environment." This district's elasticity score was 1.11. This means that for every 1 point the national political mood moved toward a party, the district was expected to move 1.11 points toward that party.[52]
State overview
Partisan control
This section details the partisan control of federal and state positions in Texas heading into the 2018 elections.
Congressional delegation
- Republicans held both U.S. Senate seats in Texas.
- Republicans held 25 of 36 U.S. House seats in Texas, and Democrats held 11.
State executives
- As of May 2018, Republicans held six of 11 state executive positions and five positions were held by nonpartisan officials.
- The governor of Texas was Republican Greg Abbott.
State legislature
- Republicans controlled both chambers of the Texas State Legislature. They had a 93-55 majority in the state House and a 21-10 majority in the state Senate.
Trifecta status
- Texas was a Republican trifecta, meaning that the Republican Party held the governorship, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House.
2018 elections
- See also: Texas elections, 2018
Texas held elections for the following positions in 2018:
- The Class 1 U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Cruz (R)
- All 36 U.S. House seats
- Governor
- Five lower state executive positions
- 15 of 31 state Senate seats
- All 150 state House seats
- Local judicial offices
- Local school boards
- Municipal elections in Arlington, Austin, Bexar County, Collin County, Corpus Christi, Dallas County, Denton County, El Paso County, Fort Bend County, Garland, Harris County, Irving, Laredo, Lubbock, Lubbock County, Nueces County, Tarrant County, Travis County, Webb County, and Williamson County
Demographics
| Demographic data for Texas | ||
|---|---|---|
| Texas | U.S. | |
| Total population: | 27,429,639 | 316,515,021 |
| Land area (sq mi): | 261,232 | 3,531,905 |
| Race and ethnicity** | ||
| White: | 74.9% | 73.6% |
| Black/African American: | 11.9% | 12.6% |
| Asian: | 4.2% | 5.1% |
| Native American: | 0.5% | 0.8% |
| Pacific Islander: | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| Two or more: | 2.5% | 3% |
| Hispanic/Latino: | 38.4% | 17.1% |
| Education | ||
| High school graduation rate: | 81.9% | 86.7% |
| College graduation rate: | 27.6% | 29.8% |
| Income | ||
| Median household income: | $53,207 | $53,889 |
| Persons below poverty level: | 19.9% | 11.3% |
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2015) Click here for more information on the 2020 census and here for more on its impact on the redistricting process in Texas. **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | ||
As of July 2016, Texas had a population of approximately 27,862,596 people, and its three largest cities were Houston (pop. est. 2.3 million), San Antonio (pop. est. 1.5 million), and Dallas (pop. est. 1.3 million).[53][54]
State election history
This section provides an overview of federal and state elections in Texas from 2000 to 2016.
Historical elections
Presidential elections, 2000-2016
This chart shows the results of the presidential election in Texas every year from 2000 to 2016.
| Election results (President of the United States), Texas 2000-2016[55][56] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | First-place candidate | First-place candidate votes (%) | Second-place candidate | Second-place candidate votes (%) | Margin of victory (%) |
| 2016 |  Donald Trump |
52.23% | Hillary Clinton |
43.24% | 8.99% |
| 2012 | Mitt Romney |
57.17% | Barack Obama |
41.38% | 15.79% |
| 2008 | John McCain |
55.45% | Barack Obama |
43.68% | 11.77% |
| 2004 | George W. Bush |
61.09% | John Kerry |
38.22% | 22.87% |
| 2000 | George W. Bush |
59.30% | Al Gore |
37.98% | 21.32% |
U.S. Senate elections, 2000-2016
This chart shows the results of U.S. Senate races in Texas from 2000 to 2016. Every state has two Senate seats, and each seat goes up for election every six years. The terms of the seats are staggered so that roughly one-third of the seats are up every two years.
| Election results (U.S. Senator), Texas 2000-2016[57] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | First-place candidate | First-place candidate votes (%) | Second-place candidate | Second-place candidate votes (%) | Margin of victory (%) |
| 2014[58] | John Cornyn |
61.56% | David Alameel |
34.36% | 27.20% |
| 2012[59] | Ted Cruz |
56.46% | Paul Sadler |
40.62% | 15.84% |
| 2008[60] | John Cornyn |
54.82% | Richard Noriega |
42.84% | 11.98% |
| 2006[61] | Kay Bailey Hutchison |
61.69% | Barbara Ann Radnofsky |
36.04% | 25.65% |
| 2002[62] | John Cornyn |
55.30% | Ron Kirk |
43.33% | 11.97% |
| 2000[63] | Kay Bailey Hutchison |
65.04% | Gene Kelly |
32.35% | 32.69% |
Gubernatorial elections, 2000-2014
This chart shows the results of the four gubernatorial elections held between 2000 and 2014. Gubernatorial elections are held every four years in Texas.
| Election results (Governor), Texas 2000-2016[64] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | First-place candidate | First-place candidate votes (%) | Second-place candidate | Second-place candidate votes (%) | Margin of victory (%) |
| 2014 | Greg Abbott |
59.27% | Wendy Davis |
38.90% | 20.37% |
| 2010 | Rick Perry |
54.97% | Bill White |
42.30% | 12.67% |
| 2006 | Rick Perry |
39.03% | Chris Bell |
29.79% | 9.24% |
| 2002 | Rick Perry |
57.81% | Tony Sanchez |
39.96% | 17.85% |
Congressional delegation, 2000-2016
This chart shows the number of Democrats and Republicans who were elected to represent Texas in the U.S. House from 2000 to 2016. Elections for U.S. House seats are held every two years.
| Congressional delegation, Texas 2000-2016 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Republicans | Republicans (%) | Democrats | Democrats (%) | Balance of power |
| 2016 | 25 |
69.4% | 11 |
30.6% | R+14 |
| 2014 | 25 |
69.4% | 11 |
30.6% | R+14 |
| 2012 | 24 |
66.7% | 12 |
33.3% | R+12 |
| 2010 | 23 |
71.9% | 9 |
28.1% | R+14 |
| 2008 | 20 |
62.5% | 12 |
37.5% | R+8 |
| 2006 | 19 |
59.4% | 13 |
40.6% | R+6 |
| 2004 | 21 |
65.6% | 11 |
34.4% | R+10 |
| 2002 | 15 |
46.9% | 17 |
53.1% | D+2 |
| 2000 | 13 |
43.3% | 17 |
56.7% | D+4 |
Trifectas, 1992-2017
A state government trifecta occurs when one party controls both chambers of the state legislature and the governor's office.
Texas Party Control: 1992-2025
Three years of Democratic trifectas • Twenty-three 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 | 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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 | R |
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, 2018
- United States House elections in Texas (March 6, 2018 Democratic primaries)
- Texas' 7th Congressional District election (March 6, 2018 Republican primary)
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2018
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, "Laura Moser," accessed February 25, 2018
- ↑ Ratings are based on projections found in Governing, Larry Sabato, The Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report, Decision Desk HQ, and The Cook Political Report. These ratings are updated periodically throughout the election season.
- ↑ ABC News, "Texas Democratic candidate says she’s 'disappointed' in party after DCCC launches attack," February 24, 2018
- ↑ '"Scribd, "MEMO Charging Forward DCCC Announces Battlefield Expansion," May 22, 2017]
- ↑ Houston Public Media, "How Rep. Culberson’s Seat Went From GOP Stronghold To ‘Toss Up’," February 19, 2018
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- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ The Washington Post, "Progressives rage at DCCC after it attacks Texas candidate for ‘begrudgingly’ moving to Houston," February 23, 2018
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- ↑ This figure includes Pennsylvania districts that were redrawn by the state Supreme Court in early 2018 and districts that flipped in special elections.
- ↑ The new 1st district was created in early 2018 due to court-ordered redistricting and most closely resembles the old 8th District held by Fitzpatrick. Click here to read more.
- ↑ The new 5th district was created in early 2018 due to court-ordered redistricting and most closely resembles the old 7th District held by Meehan. Click here to read more.
- ↑ The new 6th district was created in early 2018 due to court-ordered redistricting and most closely resembles the old 6th District held by Costello. Click here to read more.
- ↑ The new 7th district was created in early 2018 due to court-ordered redistricting and most closely resembles the old 15th District held by Dent. Click here to read more.
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