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Texas's 15th congressional district: Difference between revisions

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Texas's 15th congressional district
Texas's 15th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Representative	Vicente Gonzalez D–McAllen
Distribution	86.67% urban[1] 13.33% rural
Population (2019)	804,562[2]
Median household income	$48,113[3]
Ethnicity	81.87% Hispanic 15.1% White 1.58% Black 1.17% Asian 0.28% Native American
Cook PVI	D+3[4]

Texas's 15th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes a thin section of the far south of the state of Texas. The district's current Representative is Democrat Vicente Gonzalez, who was first elected in 2016.

The district has generally given its congressmen very long tenures in Washington; only seven people, all Democrats, have ever represented it. The district's best-known Representative was John Nance Garner, who represented the district from its creation in 1903 until 1933, and was Speaker of the House from 1931 to 1933. He ran with Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 and 1936 presidential campaigns, and was elected Vice President of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1941. The district was one of the first Latino-majority districts in the country, and has been represented by Latino congressmen since 1965.

Notably, this district narrowly voted more Republican in the House elections than the nation as a whole in 2020. Vincente Gonzalez won by 2.9 points while Democrats won the national vote by a combined 3.1 percentage points. It also voted more Republican than the national average while voting Democratic in the 2020 United States presidential election, and the difference between the national vote and the result was wider in the presidential election than the House.

List of members representing the district

Member	Party	Years	Cong ess	Electoral history
District created March 4, 1903
John N. Garner	Democratic	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1933	58th 59th 60th 61st 62nd 63rd 64th 65th 66th 67th 68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd	[data missing] Resigned to become U.S. Vice-President
Vacant		March 4, 1933 – April 23, 1933	73rd
Milton H. West	Democratic	April 23, 1933 – October 28, 1948	73rd 74th 75th 76th 77th 78th 79th 80th	Elected to finish Garner's term. Died.
Vacant		October 28, 1948 – December 4, 1948	80th
Lloyd Bentsen	Democratic	December 4, 1948 – January 3, 1955	80th 81st 82nd 83rd	Elected to finish West's term. [data missing]
Joe M. Kilgore	Democratic	January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1965	84th 85th 86th 87th 88th	[data missing]
Kika de la Garza	Democratic	January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1997	89th 90th 91st 92nd 93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd 104th	[data missing]
Rubén Hinojosa	Democratic	January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2017	105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th 111th 112th 113th 114th	[data missing]
Vicente Gonzalez	Democratic	January 3, 2017 – present	115th 116th 117th 118th	Incumbent

Election results

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1932

1933 (Special)

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1948 (Special)

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2006 (Special)

2008

2010

2012

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2016

2018

2020

Historical district boundaries

See also

• List of United States congressional districts

References

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

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