United States House Elections In Texas (March 6, 2018 Republican Primaries)

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2018 U.S. House Elections in Texas

Primary Date
March 6, 2018
GOP primaries • Democratic primaries

Partisan breakdown • Candidates

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2018 U.S. Senate Elections

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The 2018 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Texas took place on November 6, 2018. Voters elected 36 candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's 36 congressional districts. This page focuses on the Republican Party primary election taking place in each district on March 6, 2018.


Candidates[edit]

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District 1[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Louis B. Gohmert Jr. (Incumbent) ✔
  • Anthony Culler
  • Roshin Rowjee

District 2[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • David Balat
  • Daniel Crenshaw ✔
  • Jonny Havens
  • Justin Lurie
  • Kevin Roberts ✔
  • Jon Spiers
  • Rick Walker
  • Kathaleen Wall
  • Malcolm Whittaker

District 3[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Alex Donkervoet
  • David Niederkorn
  • Van Taylor ✔

District 4[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • John Ratcliffe (Incumbent) ✔
  • John Cooper

District 5[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Danny Campbell
  • Sam Deen
  • Lance Gooden ✔
  • Charles Lingerfelt
  • Bunni Pounds ✔
  • Kenneth Sheets
  • David Williams
  • Jason Wright

District 6[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Ken Cope
  • Shawn Dandridge
  • Thomas Dillingham
  • Shannon Dubberly
  • Jake Ellzey ✔
  • Deborah Gagliardi
  • Kevin Harrison
  • Mel Hassell
  • Mark Mitchell
  • Troy Ratterree
  • Ronald Wright ✔

District 7[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • John Culberson (Incumbent) ✔
  • Edward Ziegler

District 8[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Kevin Brady (Incumbent) ✔

District 9[edit]

There are no official candidates yet for this election.

District 10[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Michael McCaul (Incumbent) ✔
  • John Cook

District 11[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Mike Conaway (Incumbent) ✔
  • Paul Myers

District 12[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Kay Granger (Incumbent) ✔

District 13[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Mac Thornberry (Incumbent) ✔

District 14[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Randy Weber (Incumbent) ✔
  • Keith Casey
  • Bill Sargent

District 15[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Tim Westley ✔ Candidate Connection

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District 16[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Alia Garcia-Ureste
  • Rick Seeberger ✔

District 17[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Bill Flores (Incumbent) ✔ Candidate Connection

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District 18[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Ava Pate ✔

District 19[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Jodey Arrington (Incumbent) ✔

District 20[edit]

There are no official candidates yet for this election.

District 21[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Ivan Andarza
  • Eric Burkhart
  • Francisco Canseco
  • Mauro Garza
  • Foster Hagen
  • Jason Isaac
  • Ryan Krause
  • Matt McCall ✔
  • Susan Narvaiz
  • William Negley
  • Al Poteet
  • Autry Pruitt
  • Chip Roy ✔
  • Jenifer Sarver
  • Robert Stovall
  • Samuel Temple
  • Peggy Wardlaw
  • Anthony White

District 22[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Peter G. Olson (Incumbent) ✔
  • James Green
  • Danny Nguyen
  • Eric Zmrhal

District 23[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • William Hurd (Incumbent) ✔
  • Alma Arredondo-Lynch

District 24[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Kenny Marchant (Incumbent) ✔
  • Johnathan Davidson

District 25[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Roger Williams (Incumbent) ✔

District 26[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Michael C. Burgess (Incumbent) ✔
  • Veronica Birkenstock

District 27[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Michael Cloud (Incumbent) ✔
  • Bech Bruun ✔
  • Eddie Gassman
  • John Grunwald
  • Jerry Hall
  • Chris Mapp

District 28[edit]

There are no official candidates yet for this election.

District 29[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Phillip Arnold Aronoff ✔
  • Jaimy Annette Zoboulikos-Blanco
  • Carmen Maria Montiel ✔
  • Robert Schafranek

District 30[edit]

There are no official candidates yet for this election.

District 31[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • John Carter (Incumbent) ✔
  • Mike Sweeney

District 32[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Pete Sessions (Incumbent) ✔
  • Paul Brown

District 33[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Willie Billups ✔

District 34[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Rey Gonzalez Jr. ✔

District 35[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Sherrill Kenneth Alexander
  • David Smalling ✔ Candidate Connection

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District 36[edit]

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Brian Babin (Incumbent) ✔


Pivot Counties[edit]

See also: Pivot Counties by state

One of 254 Texas counties—0.4 percent—is a Pivot County. Pivot Counties are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.

Counties won by Trump in 2016 and Obama in 2012 and 2008
County Trump margin of victory in 2016 Obama margin of victory in 2012 Obama margin of victory in 2008
Jefferson County, Texas 0.48% 1.61% 2.25%

In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump (R) won Texas with 52.2 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton (D) received 43.2 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, Texas cast votes for the winning presidential candidate 66.7 percent of the time. In that same time frame, Texas supported Democratic candidates slightly more often than Republicans, 53.3 to 46.7 percent. The state, however, favored Republicans in every presidential election between 2000 and 2016.

Presidential results by legislative district[edit]

The following table details results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections by state House districts in Texas. Click [show] to expand the table. The "Obama," "Romney," "Clinton," and "Trump" columns describe the percent of the vote each presidential candidate received in the district. The "2012 Margin" and "2016 Margin" columns describe the margin of victory between the two presidential candidates in those years. The "Party Control" column notes which party held that seat heading into the 2018 general election. Data on the results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections broken down by state legislative districts was compiled by Daily Kos.[1][2]

In 2012, Barack Obama (D) won 54 out of 150 state House districts in Texas with an average margin of victory of 37.4 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton (D) won 65 out of 150 state House districts in Texas with an average margin of victory of 36.4 points. Clinton won 10 districts controlled by Republicans heading into the 2018 elections.
In 2012, Mitt Romney (R) won 96 out of 150 state House districts in Texas with an average margin of victory of 36.2 points. In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won 85 out of 150 state House districts in Texas with an average margin of victory of 34.5 points.

See also[edit]

  • United States House elections in Texas (March 6, 2018 Democratic primaries)
  • United States House Republican Party primaries, 2018
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 2018
  • U.S. House battlegrounds, 2018
  • U.S. House primaries, 2018

Footnotes[edit]

  1. Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' statewide election results by congressional and legislative districts," July 9, 2013
  2. Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2016 presidential results for congressional and legislative districts," February 6, 2017



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Texas' current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators
John Cornyn (R)
Ted Cruz (R)
Representatives
District 1
Louis Gohmert (R)
District 2
Daniel Crenshaw (R)
District 3
Van Taylor (R)
District 4
Pat Fallon (R)
District 5
Lance Gooden (R)
District 6
Jake Ellzey (R)
District 7
Lizzie Fletcher (D)
District 8
Kevin Brady (R)
District 9
Al Green (D)
District 10
Michael McCaul (R)
District 11
August Pfluger (R)
District 12
Kay Granger (R)
District 13
Ronny Jackson (R)
District 14
Randy Weber (R)
District 15
Vicente Gonzalez (D)
District 16
Veronica Escobar (D)
District 17
Pete Sessions (R)
District 18
Sheila Lee (D)
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
Michael Burgess (R)
District 27
Michael Cloud (R)
District 28
Henry Cuellar (D)
District 29
Sylvia Garcia (D)
District 30
Eddie Johnson (D)
District 31
John Carter (R)
District 32
Colin Allred (D)
District 33
Marc Veasey (D)
District 34
Mayra Flores (R)
District 35
Lloyd Doggett (D)
District 36
Brian Babin (R)
Republican Party (26)
Democratic Party (12)



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