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1992 Texas House of Representatives election

1992 Texas House of Representatives election

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All 150 seats in the Texas House of Representatives 76 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Gib Lewis (retired) Tom Craddick Party Democratic Republican Leader since January 11, 1983 January 9, 1973 Leader's seat 89th 82nd Last election 93 57 Seats before 92 58 Seats won 92 58 Seat change Popular vote 2,573,755 2,234,252 Percentage 52.13% 45.25% Swing 2.39% 0.23%
Results by seat gains Results by vote share      Democratic hold      Democratic gain      Republican hold      Republican gain Democratic:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      ≥90% Republican:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      ≥90%
Speaker before election Gib Lewis Democratic Elected Speaker Pete Laney Democratic

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The 1992 Texas House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Texas voters elected state representatives in all 150 State House of Representatives districts. The winners of this election served in the 73rd Texas Legislature, with seats apportioned according to the 1990 United States census. State representatives serve for two-year terms. Democrats maintained their majority of 92 out of 150 seats. As of 2024, this is the last time Democrats won the statewide popular vote for the Texas House.

Background[edit]

Democrats had held control of the Texas House of Representatives since Reconstruction. Republicans had gained one seat due to special elections after the resignation of Democrat Bruce Gibson of District 58. Republican Bernard Erickson won the special election outright to avoid a runoff, becoming the first Republican to ever represent the district.^[1]

Redistricting[edit]

Following the release of the 1990 census results, democrats fully controlled the redistricting process. Republicans sued over the Texas House's map that was originally passed. The courts partially overhauled the map as a result of these lawsuits.^[2] Democrats codified the court's map into law in a January 1992 special session.^[3]

House districts follow the "county line rule," effectively granting individual counties delegations of state house seats based on their population.^[4] The census found that Texas had a population of 14,229,191 in 1980, giving each district an "ideal population" of 94,861 people. In 1990, the "ideal population for a district" was 113,243 people based on a statewide population of 16,986,510. Counties with at least this number of people must fully contain at least one state house district. Counties with sufficient population for two or more districts must be divided into that number of districts. Should a county have sufficient population for one or more district plus a fraction of another, one district from another county may extend into it to represent the remaining population. District delegations for counties with at least one district changed as follows following the 1990 Census:^[5]

County	1980 pop.[6]	Seats	Partial	1990 pop.[7]	Seats	Partial	+/– W	+/– P
Bell County	157,820	1	Yes	191,073	1	Yes
Bexar County	988,971	10	No	1,185,394	11	No	1
Brazoria County	169,587	1	Two	191,707	1	Yes
Brazos County	93,588	1	No	121,862	1	Yes
Cameron County	209,727	2	Yes	260,120	2	Yes
Collin County	144,576	1	Two	264,036	2	Yes	1
Dallas County	1,556,419	17	No	1,852,691	16	No	1
Denton County	143,126	1	Yes	273,644	2	Yes	1
Ector County	115,374	1	Yes	118,934	1	Yes
El Paso County	479,899	5	No	591,610	5	No
Fort Bend County	130,962	1	Yes	225,421	2	No	1
Galveston County	195,738	2	No	217,396	2	No
Gregg County	99,495	1	No	104,948	0	Yes	1
Harris County	2,409,547	26	No	2,818,101	25	No	1
Hidalgo County	283,323	3	No	383,545	3	Yes
Jefferson County	248,651	2	Two	239,389	2	Yes
Lubbock County	211,651	2	Yes	222,636	2	No
McLennan County	170,755	1	Yes	189,123	1	Yes
Montgomery County	127,222	1	Yes	182,201	1	Yes
Nueces County	268,215	2	Yes	291,145	2	Yes
Potter County	98,637	1	No	97,874	0	Yes	1
Smith County	128,366	1	Yes	151,309	1	Yes
Tarrant County	860,880	9	No	1,170,103	10	No	1
Taylor County	110,932	1	Yes	119,655	1	Yes
Travis County	419,573	4	Yes	576,407	5	No	1
Webb County	99,258	1	No	133,239	1	Yes
Wichita County	121,082	1	Yes	122,378	1	Yes
Williamson County	76,521	0	Yes	139,551	1	Yes	1

Results[edit]

Despite Republican George H. W. Bush's victory in Texas in the concurrent presidential election, Republicans made no net gains over the Democrats in the Texas House.^[8] A large number of retirements and primary defeats led to a turnover of over 30 House members.^[9]InHarris County, a narrow election result in District 144 led to a contested election between Democrat Donald Fogo and Republican Robert Talton. Early ballots had Fogo in the lead, but later counts gave the lead to Talton. A recount confirmed Talton's victory, but Fogo contested the election.^[10] A special panel in the Texas House later upheld Talton's victory, flipping the seat to the Republicans.^[11]

Statewide[edit]

Summary of the November 3, 1992 Texas House of Representatives election results

Party		Candidates	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Democratic Party	115	2,573,755	52.13%	92
	Republican Party	89	2,234,252	45.25%	58
	Libertarian Party	29	129,353	2.62%	0	–
Total			4,937,360	100.00%	150	–

Close races[edit]

Results by district[edit]

References[edit]