Carol Alvarado gave up the seat in December after winning a promotion to the Texas Senate.
Carol Alvarado
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Texas Legislature 2019
Houston voters to decide Tuesday between 2 Democrats for Carol Alvarado’s Texas House seat
Democrats Christina Morales and Melissa Noriega are on the ballot Tuesday for the Texas House seat previously held by now-state Sen. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Special election runoff to replace Carol Alvarado in Texas House to be held March 5
Voters will decide the successor to former state Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, who was elected to the Texas Senate in December.
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Democrat wins special election to replace Pickett; 2 Democrats headed to runoff to replace Alvarado
There were special elections Tuesday to fill vacant state House seats in Houston and El Paso.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Voters to pick replacements for former state Reps. Carol Alvarado, Joe Pickett
There are special elections Tuesday in House District 145 and House District 79.
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Politics
8 file in special election to replace Carol Alvarado; 3 sign up for Joe Pickett’s seat
There will be special elections on Jan. 29 in two Texas House districts to fill vacant seats, and the filing deadline was 5 p.m. Thursday.
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Health care
Texas still hasn’t expanded Medicaid. That’s leaving a gap in coverage for hundreds of thousands.
More and more states have decided to expand Medicaid, but Texas has not budged. With more than a half million Texans in the so-called health coverage gap, will the politics of the issue shift in next year’s legislative session?
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Texas Elections 2018
State Rep. Carol Alvarado wins special election to replace Sylvia Garcia in Texas Senate
The Houston Democrat narrowly avoided a runoff Tuesday night as unofficial results showed she prevailed in the special election to succeed ex-state Sen. Sylvia Garcia.
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Texas Elections 2018
Two Texas House Democrats from Houston lead 4-way race to replace state Sen. Sylvia Garcia
State Reps. Carol Alvarado and Ana Hernandez, both Democrats, are the most well-known candidates running to replace former state Sen. Sylvia Garcia in a district that Hillary Clinton won in 2016 by 46 percentage points.
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Texas Elections 2018
Four candidates file for special election to replace Sylvia Garcia
The deadline was 5 p.m. Friday.