Menefee will fill Houston’s long-vacant congressional seat.

The challenge for Christian Menefee will be balancing the immediate demands of governing with the realities of a campaign for CD-18 that never stopped.

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee (D) has won the special election runoff for late Rep. Sylvester Turner’s (D-Texas) ...

Houston Democrat Christian Menefee has been elected to the U.S. House, filling the vacant seat in Texas' 18th Congressional ...

Texas' 18th Congressional District, which stretches across much of Houston’s urban core, has long been a Democratic stronghold and a symbolic seat in Texas politics. It was once held by civil rights ...

The Texas district has been vacant most of the past year. Menefee will replace the late Representative Sylvester Turner, who served only two months in the House before his death in March ...

Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority ...

Former Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee has won a special runoff election for a vacant, deep-blue House seat in Texas ...

Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas special election for the U.S. House of Representatives, according to the ...

A Democrat won a state legislative special election in a district that President Trump carried by 17 percentage points, unnerving Republicans in Texas and beyond.

Follow live results from the 2026 Texas House Special Election. Get the latest news on the special election results as votes ...