Follow Texas House District 27 election results live during the 2024 election. Get updates on voting outcomes from the Texas House election, including maps from NBC News.
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Ted Cruz underperformed compared to Donald Trump in the four major counties, but had an improved performance compared to his 2018 reelection campaign.
Recent gains made by Democrats in past elections were wiped out, as Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and other Republicans won by wide margins.
The membership of the Texas House is finally set after Tuesday’s general election — but the future of the chamber’s leadership remains a mystery. On Thursday, the jostling to hold the speaker’s gavel resumed with insurgent candidate Rep.
In Starr County, where Bazán lives, voters just backed a Republican presidential candidate for the first time in a century. The predominantly Hispanic and working-class rural county, where the median household income of $36,000 is one of the lowest in the nation, gave Trump a 16 percentage-point victory margin over Vice President Kamala Harris.
The outcome bolsters Gov. Greg Abbott, who has been pushing to stack the Legislature with Republicans supportive of his private school voucher plan.
If those results hold, the GOP will control at least 88 of 150 seats in the lower chamber when the Legislature reconvenes in January. That margin will give Gov. Greg Abbott “more than enough votes” to finally pass a school voucher bill, he said late Tuesday.
In keeping his seat, he dashed rising hopes among some Democrats that years of demographic changes and urbanization could start to flip the state.
See how various groups in Texas voted for president and U.S. Senate in the 2024 election by reviewing data from the network exit poll conducted by Edison Research. Presidential charts show estimates for the share of each group that supported Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump in Texas.