Hinojosa was careful while campaigning not to overpromise what she could deliver, assuming she’d be fighting against GOP majorities. Now she and her Democratic allies will control the government.
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2026 Texas Elections
Surge in voter turnout in urban, border counties carried Texas blue wave
Meanwhile, rural counties saw the smallest growth in turnout.
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2026 Texas Elections
After historic rout, Texas Republicans train fire on Trump, Paxton and each other in search for answers
Many Texas Republicans entered Tuesday’s election having known November as a formality. They ended the night in the political wilderness trying to make sense of what went so wrong.
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2026 Texas Elections
Gina Hinojosa won the governor’s race. What happens to Texas data centers now?
The governor-elect has called for a data center moratorium to last until the Texas Legislature meets in January to pass “real protections so Texans can have a seat at the table.”
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2026 Texas Elections
After supporting Trump in 2024, Texas border counties fueled Democrats’ big night
Counties along the U.S.-Mexico border saw the largest surge in voter turnout compared to any other region in the state.
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2026 Texas Elections
Democrats flip Texas House amid generational wave
Democrats needed to flip 14 seats to win the lower chamber, which has been under Republican control since 2003. They were on track to easily clear that threshold.
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2026 Texas Elections
Ken Paxton survived scandal after scandal. He couldn’t survive a Senate race.
The attorney general ran for Senate as a grudge match, and in the process helped give Democrats their first win in decades.
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2026 Texas Elections
Texas Republicans’ gerrymander backfires as Democrats gain ground in U.S. House delegation
Republicans lost two U.S. House seats they already controlled and flipped only one of their five gerrymander targets.
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2026 Texas Elections
Photos: Texans cast their ballots resulting in a historic Election Day
State Rep. James Talarico defeated Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, and state Rep. Gina Hinojosa was elected to become Texas’s first Democratic governor since Ann Richards lost her reelection bid in 1994.
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2026 Texas Elections
Democrats seize power in Texas, ending decades of GOP dominance
Texas’ governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and every other statewide candidate fell, upending the state’s political power structure in one night.
