Redistricting Texas 2025 Archives - The Texas Tribune https://www.texastribune.org/series/texas-redistricting-2025/ Independent news. Trusted by Texans. Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:50:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.texastribune.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-cropped-texas-tribune-favicon-32x32.png Redistricting Texas 2025 Archives - The Texas Tribune https://www.texastribune.org/series/texas-redistricting-2025/ 32 32 249301168 Jace Yarbrough is GOP nominee in North Texas congressional district after second-place finisher bows out https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/17/texas-32nd-congressional-district-jace-yarbrough-ryan-binkley-gop-primary/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:50:59 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/?p=224236 Jace Yarbrough is the GOP nominee for the Republican-leaning 32nd Congressional District in North Texas.

After finishing a distant second in the March 3 primary, Ryan Binkley dropped out of the runoff. Yarbrough is favored to win the general election for the redrawn 32nd District.

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Texans are voting in new congressional districts. See how yours looks for the March 2026 primaries. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/04/2025-texas-redistricting-maps/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/04/2025-texas-redistricting-maps/

Last year, Texas Republicans drew new districts aimed at picking up five more U.S. House seats. This tool compares previous and new districts.

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Briscoe Cain, Alex Mealer lead crowded pack vying for Houston’s new red congressional district https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/05/briscoe-cain-alex-mealer-texas-9th-congressional-district-gop-primary-redistricting/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/?p=219551 State Rep. Briscoe Cain, left, and former Harris County judge candidate Alex Mealer are running in the Republican primary for Texas' 9th Congressional District, a newly drawn red-leaning seat in east Harris County that includes the Houston Ship Channel.

Cain, a state lawmaker, and Mealer, a former Harris County judge candidate, have consolidated much of the fundraising and endorsements in the 9th Congressional District’s Republican primary.

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Supreme Court’s map ruling sends Texas Democrats toward potential primaries, retirement or higher office bids https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/05/texas-democrats-decisions-supreme-court-redistricting/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:40:18 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/?p=213539 U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, speaks during Fight The Trump Takeover Rally in front of the south steps of the Capitol in Austin on Aug. 16, 2025.

Houston Democrats are barreling toward a primary while North Texas Democrats await Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Senate decision.

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Supreme Court lets Texas keep new congressional map while legal battle continues https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/04/texas-redistricting-map-us-supreme-court-2026-midterms/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:16:00 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/?p=212645 State Sen. Kevin Sparks, R-Midland, looks over a proposed congressional map during a redistricting hearing at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Aug. 6, 2025.

The ruling is a major win for the Trump administration and Texas Republicans, who engineered the map to give the GOP control of 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts.

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Supreme Court temporarily restores Texas’ new congressional map https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/21/texas-redistricting-supreme-court-temporary-stay/ Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:22:29 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/?p=212652 The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 29, 2024.

The administrative ruling is a first step before the court decides whether to pause the use of the 2025 map, drawn to increase GOP seats in the U.S. House, for the rest of the legal battle.

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Abbott, Republican lawmakers’ comments cited in court order overturning Texas’ congressional gerrymander https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/21/texas-redistricting-map-overturned-abbott-gop-lawmaker-comments/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/?p=212505 Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a press conference in Houston on Oct. 1, 2025.

Judge Jeffrey Brown pointed to comments from the governor and GOP legislators as the basis for his ruling that the new map can’t be used in 2026.

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Court order on Texas redistricting forces election officials, county parties to scramble — again https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/20/redistricting-order-2026-midterms-forces-election-officials-candidates-scramble/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:24:50 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/?p=212419 An election worker makes a final passthrough of voting machines on Election Day at Parker Elementary in Houston on Nov. 5, 2024.

Texas officials preparing for elections under new congressional maps must quickly reverse course because of a federal court order blocking the use of the maps.

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Court order striking down Texas redistricting map upends plans for candidates across the state https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/texas-congressional-redistricting-map-ruling-2026-effect/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:16:37 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/?p=212142 U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Austin speaks during a press conference with Texas Democratic leaders at the Texas Capitol on July 31, 2025. Also pictured, left to right, are U.S. Reps. Greg Casar of Austin, Lizzie Fletcher of Houston, Al Green of Houston and Sylvia Garcia of Houston.

Republicans who were planning to run for newly gerrymandered districts may have to reassess, while Democrats who were drawn out of their seats could suddenly have a path back to Congress.

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After blocking redistricting map, Judge Jeffrey Brown draws fire from Texas Republicans who once praised him https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/19/texas-redistricting-ruling-judge-jeffrey-brown-republican-attacks/ Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:23:58 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/?p=212292 Then-Texas Supreme Court Justice Jeff Brown talks with legislators after the State of the Judiciary address at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Feb. 6, 2019.

Until being labeled as the "radical left," Brown was widely supported by Texas Republicans, including Gov. Greg Abbott, who previously hired him as his clerk. Abbott called the ruling “clearly erroneous.”

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