US EditionTexas Democrats Menefee and Edwards Advance to Runoff for Vacant US House Seat
Christian Menefee and Amanda Edwards lead a crowded field of 16 candidates with 33% and 25% of the vote, advancing to a January runoff to fill the late Rep. Turner's seat.
- Texas voters cast ballots on Nov. 4, 2025 to fill a vacant U.S. House seat in the state's 18th Congressional District after the seat was vacated earlier this year.
- Christian Menefee, the acting Harris County attorney, and Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member, advanced to a runoff election likely in February after leading the crowded primary with 32% and 26% of the vote, respectively.
- Many Democrats criticized Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to schedule the special election in November, leaving district residents without Congressional representation for eight months.
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Texas District Heads to Runoff Between 2 Well-Known Local Democrats - The Thinking Conservative News
House Republicans’ narrow margin of control in the U.S. House will soon get smaller when this Houston-area district’s vacant seat is filled. The post Texas District Heads to Runoff Between 2 Well-Known Local Democrats appeared first on The Thinking Conservative News.
Texas District Heads to Runoff Between 2 Well-Known Local Democrats
HOUSTON—Two well-known local Democrats will face each other in a runoff election to fill Texas Congressional District 18, which has remained vacant since Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas) died in office. The top two vote getters were Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee and former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards. With 78 percent of the votes counted, Menefee received 29.4 percent of the total, compared to Edwards’s 25.7 percent. The…
Democrat Who Called for Going at Republicans' Necks Suffers Decisive Election Defeat
Voters in Texas’ 18th congressional district’s Tuesday special election rejected Democratic Texas state Rep. Jolanda Jones, who used violent language in calling for the “wipe out” of Republicans on CNN […] The post Democrat Who Called for Going at Republicans' Necks Suffers Decisive Election Defeat appeared first on The Western Journal.
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