Texas's 27th Senate district

Texas's 27th State Senate district
Senator	Adam Hinojosa R – Corpus Christi
Demographics	8%  White 0.7%  Black 90.7%  Hispanic 0.7%  Asian
Population	829,476

District 27 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Bee, Cameron, Kenedy, Kleberg, San Patricio, and Willacy counties and portions of Hidalgo and Nueces counties in the U.S. state of Texas. ^[1]

The current senator from District 27 is Adam Hinojosa .

Biggest cities in the district

District 27 has a population of 786,946 with 524,120 that is at voting age from the 2010 census. ^[2]

	Name	County	Pop. [3] [a]
1	Brownsville	Cameron	175,023
2	Harlingen	Cameron	64,849
3	Pharr	Hidalgo	55,332
4	Weslaco	Hidalgo	35,670
5	San Juan	Hidalgo	33,856

Election history

Election history of District 27 from 1992. ^[b]

2024

Texas general election, 2024: Senate District 27 ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Adam Hinojosa	126,073	49.38	−0.43
	Democratic	Morgan LaMantia (Incumbent)	123,305	48.29	−1.90
	Green	Hunter Crow	5,956	2.33	+2.33
Majority			2,768	1.08	+0.70
Turnout			255,334	100.00
	Republican gain from Democratic

2022

Texas general election, 2022: Senate District 27 ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Morgan LaMantia	88,037	50.19	−14.62
	Republican	Adam Hinojosa	87,378	49.81	+14.62
Majority			659	0.38	−29.24
Turnout			175,415	100.00
	Democratic hold

2020

Texas general election, 2020: Senate District 27 ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Eddie Lucio, Jr. (Incumbent)	134,035	64.81	−35.19
	Republican	Vanessa Tijerina	72,768	35.19	+35.19
Majority			61,267	29.62	−70.38
Turnout			206,803
	Democratic hold

2016

Texas general election, 2016: Senate District 27 ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Eddie Lucio, Jr. (Incumbent)	135,945	100.00	0.00
Majority			135,945	100.00	0.00
Turnout			135,945
	Democratic hold

2012

Texas general election, 2012: Senate District 27 ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Eddie Lucio, Jr. (Incumbent)	113,542	100.00	0.00
Majority			113,542	100.00	0.00
Turnout			113,542
	Democratic hold

2008

Texas general election, 2008: Senate District 27 ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Eddie Lucio, Jr. (Incumbent)	111,596	100.00	0.00
Majority			111,596	100.00	0.00
Turnout			111,596
	Democratic hold

2004

Texas general election, 2004: Senate District 27 ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Eddie Lucio, Jr. (Incumbent)	89,984	100.00	0.00
Majority			89,984	100.00	0.00
Turnout			89,984		+46.60
	Democratic hold

2002

Texas general election, 2002: Senate District 27 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Eddie Lucio, Jr. (Incumbent)	61,382	100.00	0.00
Majority			61,382	100.00	0.00
Turnout			61,382		−34.73
	Democratic hold

2000

Texas general election, 2000: Senate District 27 ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Eddie Lucio, Jr. (Incumbent)	94,042	100.00	0.00
Majority			94,042	100.00	0.00
Turnout			94,042		+16.30
	Democratic hold

1996

Texas general election, 1996: Senate District 27 ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Eddie Lucio, Jr. (Incumbent)	80,865	100.00	+33.27
Majority			80,865	100.00	+66.55
Turnout			80,865		+1.44
	Democratic hold

1994

Texas general election, 1994: Senate District 27 ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Eddie Lucio, Jr. (Incumbent)	53,194	66.73	−33.27
	Republican	Ismael Moran	26,527	33.27	+33.27
Majority			26,667	33.45	−66.55
Turnout			79,721		−1.53
	Democratic hold

Democratic primary, 1994: Senate District 27 ^[15]

Candidate		Votes	%	±
✓	Eddie Lucio, Jr. (Incumbent)	33,467	70.56
	Miguel Wise	13,964	29.44
Majority		19,503	41.12
Turnout		47,431

1992

Texas general election, 1992: Senate District 27 ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Eddie Lucio, Jr. (Incumbent)	80,961	100.00
Majority			80,961	100.00
Turnout			80,961
	Democratic hold

Democratic primary, 1992: Senate District 27 ^[17]

Candidate		Votes	%	±
	Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa	25,132	42.67
✓	Eddie Lucio, Jr. (Incumbent)	33,765	57.33
Majority		8,633	14.66
Turnout		58,897

District officeholders

Legislature	Senator, District 27	Counties in District
5	Claiborne Kyle	Caldwell, Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays.
6	Henry Eustace McCulloch
7
8	Thomas Hinds Duggan
9	John N. Houston	Bell, Burnet, Lampasas, Milam, Williamson.
10	John A. Heiskell
11	William Cornelius Dalrymple
12	Thomas H. Baker	Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe.
13
14	John Ireland	Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays.
15	Wells Thompson	Colorado, Gonzales, Lavaca.
16	Samuel C. Patton
17
18	Norman G. Collins	Cameron, Dimmit, Duval, Encinal, Frio, Hidalgo, Kinney, La Salle, Maverick, Nueces, Starr, Uvalde, Webb, Zapata, Zavala.
19	E. F. Hall
20	Francis E. MacManus
21	Edwin Augustus Atlee
22
23	Woodson H. Browning	Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas.
24	William L. Harrison
25
26	D. E. Patterson
27
28	Robert W. Martin	Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton.
29
30	Earle Bradford Mayfield
31
32
33	Earle Bradford Mayfield Charles W. Taylor
34	Hugh Harris
35	Aaron C. Buchanan
36
37
38	John W. Thomas
39	Archie Parr	Brooks, Cameron, Dimmit, Duval, Frio, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg, La Salle, McMullen, Nueces, Starr, Webb, Willacy, Zapata, Zavala.
40
41
42
43
44	Jim Neal
45
46	Rogers Kelley
47
48
49
50
51
52
53		Cameron, Hidalgo.
54
55	Hubert R. Hudson
56
57
58	James Bates
59
60		All of Hidalgo. Portion of Cameron.
61
62
63	Raul L. Longoria	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Wells.
64
65
66
67	Raul L. Longoria Hector Uribe
68	Hector Uribe	All of Cameron. Portion of Hidalgo.
69
70
71
72	Eddie Lucio, Jr.
73
74
75
76
77
78		All of Cameron, Kenedy, Kleberg, Willacy. Portion of Hidalgo.
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88	Morgan LaMantia	All of Bee, Cameron, Kenedy, Kleberg, San Patricio, Willacy. Portions of Hidalgo, Nueces.
89	Adam Hinojosa

Notes

1. Population is based on the number of people in the district in that city, not the overall population of that city
2. Uncontested primary elections are not shown.

References

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