Texas's 21st congressional district | |
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Population (2023) | 839,290 [2] |
Median household income | $90,518 [2] |
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Cook PVI | R+13 [3] |
Texas's 21st congressional district of the United States House of Representatives serves the area north of San Antonio and a significant portion of Austin in the state of Texas. Towns entirely or partially in this district include Boerne, Fredericksburg, Ingram, Kerrville, Kyle, New Braunfels, and San Marcos. The current Representative from the 21st district is Chip Roy.
Year | U.S. President | U.S. Senator | Governor |
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2000 | Bush (R) 74 - 24% | [Data unknown/missing] | — |
2004 | Bush (R) 66 – 34% | — | — |
2008 | McCain (R): 56 – 42% | [Data unknown/missing] | — |
2012 | Romney (R): 59.8 – 37.9% | Cruz (R): 58 – 37% | — |
2016 | Trump (R): 52.5 – 42.5% | — | — |
2018 | — | Cruz (R): 49.6 – 49.5% | Abbott (R): 55 – 43% |
2020 | Trump (R): 51 – 48% | [Data unknown/missing] | — |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Lamar Smith (incumbent) | 209,774 | 61.5% | −11.4% | |
Democratic | Rhett Smith | 121,129 | 35.5% | +10.2% | |
Libertarian | Jason Pratt | 10,216 | 3.0% | +1.1% | |
Majority | 88,645 | 26.0% | |||
Turnout | 341,119 | ||||
Republican hold | Swing | -10.8% |
In the case of League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry , 548 U. S. 399 (2006), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the configuration of Texas' 15th, 21st, 23rd, 25th and 28th congressional districts as drawn by the Texas Legislature violated the National Voting Rights Act of 1965. Replacement district boundaries for the 2006 election were subsequently issued for the five districts by the local federal district court, and on election day in November, these five districts had open primaries, with candidates being elected for receiving over 50 percent of the vote. Runoff elections were held in December to decide elections in which no candidate gained an absolute majority in November. [4]
In the 2006 election, Lamar Smith defeated veteran and college administrator John Courage with 60% of the vote.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Lamar Smith (incumbent) | 122,486 | 60.1% | −1.4% | |
Democratic | John Courage | 49,957 | 24.51% | −10.99% | |
Democratic | Gene Kelly | 18,355 | 9% | ||
Independent | Tommy Ray Calvert Jr | 5,280 | 2.59% | ||
Libertarian | James Arthur Strohm | 4,076 | 2.0% | −1.0% | |
Independent | James Lyle Peterson | 2,189 | 1.07% | ||
Independent | Mark J. Rossano | 1,439 | 0.7% | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 203,782 | ||||
Republican hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Lamar Smith (incumbent) | 243,471 | 79.99% | +19.89% | |
Libertarian | James Arthur Strohm | 60,879 | 20% | +18% | |
Majority | 182,592 | ||||
Turnout | 304,350 | ||||
Republican hold | Swing |
In the 2010 election, Lamar Smith defeated Lainey Melnick with 68.9 percent of the vote. Melnick, an Austin real estate broker, officially filed papers with the Federal Election Commission on June 23, 2009 to become a candidate.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Lamar Smith (incumbent) | 169,924 | 68.9 | −11.09% | |
Democratic | Lainey Melnick | 65,834 | 27.9 | +3.39% | |
Libertarian | James Arthur Strohm | 7,687 | 3.3 | −16.7% | |
Majority | 96929 | ||||
Turnout | 236,284 | ||||
Republican hold | Swing |
Incumbent Lamar Smith faced five challengers in the 2012 general election on November 6, 2012: Candace Duval (Dem), John-Henry Liberty (Lib), Fidel Castillo (Grn), Bill Stout (Grn), and Carlos Pena (Ind). [5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Lamar Smith (Incumbent) | 187,015 | 60.5 | |
Democratic | Candace E. Duval | 109,326 | 35.4 | |
Libertarian | John-Henry Liberty | 12,524 | 4.0 | |
Total votes | 308,865 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Lamar Smith (Incumbent) | 135,513 | 71.8 | |
Libertarian | Ryan Shields | 25,483 | 13.5 | |
Green | Antonio Diaz | 27,782 | 14.7 | |
Total votes | 188,778 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Lamar Smith (Incumbent) | 202,523 | 57.0 | |
Democratic | Tom Wakely | 129,253 | 36.4 | |
Libertarian | Mark Loewe | 14,698 | 4.1 | |
Green | Tony Diaz | 8,520 | 2.4 | |
Total votes | 354,994 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
Lamar Smith did not run for reelection in 2018. [6]
On the Republican side, 18 candidates competed in the March 6 primary, in which no one received a majority. The first- and second-place finishers were, respectively, attorney Chip Roy, who served as chief of staff to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and senior advisor to Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), [7] and Matt McCall, owner of a business providing human tissue for American military hospitals. Roy and McCall advanced to a May 22 runoff, which Roy won with 52.7% of the vote. [8]
On the Democratic side, four candidates ran to replace Smith: Joseph Kopser, entrepreneur and Army veteran; Derrick Crowe, activist; Elliott McFadden, executive director of Austin B-cycle; and Mary Street Wilson, pastor. [9] No one received a majority in the March 6 primary, [10] so the top two finishers, Wilson and Kopser, advanced to a runoff on May 22. Kopser flipped the primary result in the runoff against Wilson, winning the nomination with 58% of the vote. [11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Chip Roy | 176,913 | 50.3 | |
Democratic | Joseph Kopser | 167,020 | 47.5 | |
Libertarian | Lee Santos | 7,497 | 2.1 | |
Total votes | 351,430 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
The incumbent, Chip Roy, was unopposed for the Republican nomination. Former state Senator Wendy Davis won the Democratic primary runoff. [12] Tom Wakely was nominated by the Green Party caucus. The state Supreme Court allowed his inclusion after Wendy Davis tried unsuccessfully to have him removed from the ballot. [13] Perennial candidate Arthur DiBianca was the Libertarian nominee; [14] a last-minute lawsuit by Republicans to block DiBianca and 43 other Libertarian Party candidates from the ballot failed. [15] [16]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Wendy Davis | 84,593 | 86.3 | |
Democratic | Jennie Lou Leeder | 13,485 | 13.7 | |
Total votes | 98,078 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Chip Roy (incumbent) | 235,740 | 52.0 | |
Democratic | Wendy Davis | 205,780 | 45.3 | |
Libertarian | Arthur DiBlanca | 8,666 | 1.9 | |
Green | Tom Wakely | 3,564 | 0.8 | |
Total votes | 453,750 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Chip Roy (incumbent) | 207,426 | 62.8 | |
Democratic | Claudia Zapata | 122,655 | 37.1 | |
Total votes | 330,081 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
The incumbent, Chip Roy (R, Dripping Springs), an attorney, ran unopposed and was nominated in the March 5, 2024 Republican primary. <ref>https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2024-03-05/live-2024-san-antonio-primary-election-results/ref> Dr. Kristin Hook (D, San Antonio), a biologist formerly employed as a biologist by US Government Accountability Office, ran unopposed and was nominated in the March 5, 2024 Democratic primary.<ref>https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2024-03-05/live-2024-san-antonio-primary-election-results/ref> Bob King (L, New Braunfels), a retired energy finance executive and nonprofit leader, ran unopposed and was nominated at the Libertarian district convention on March 23, 2024.<ref>https://www.lptexas.org/2024_candidates/ref>
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