Texas's 35th congressional district

Not to be confused with Texas's 35th House of Representatives district.

Texas's 35th congressional district
Texas's 35th congressional district since January 3, 2023
Representative
Distribution
  • 95.99% urban[1]
  • 4.01% rural
Population (2023)834,055[2]
Median household
income		$73,349[3]
Ethnicity
Cook PVID+21[4]

Texas's 35th congressional district is a district that was created as a result of the 2010 United States census.[5] The first candidates ran in the 2012 House elections and were seated for the 113th United States Congress.[6] This election was won by Lloyd Doggett, who previously represented Texas's 25th congressional district before redistricting.[7]

The district includes parts of the San Antonio metropolitan area (primarily black- and Hispanic-majority areas), including portions of Bexar County, thin strips of Comal and Hays counties, a portion of Caldwell County, and portions of southern and eastern Austin in Travis County.[8] The district roughly follows Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin.

In March 2017, a panel of federal judges ruled that the 35th district was illegally drawn with discriminatory intent.[9] In August 2017, another panel of federal judges in San Antonio ruled that the district was unconstitutional.[10] However, the district was allowed to stand in the U.S. Supreme Court's 2018 Abbott v. Perez ruling.[11]

Greg Casar, from Austin, won the 2022 election for this seat; Doggett moved to the newly created 37th district, centered almost entirely on Austin and containing small amounts of its suburbs, and won the election there. As a result, Austin will be represented by two Democrats in the House.

With a Cook PVI of D+21 (as of 2023), it is now the second-most Democratic district that includes Austin. Only the 37th is more Democratic with a D+24 rating.[4]

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  2. ^ "My Congressional District".
  3. ^ "My Congressional District".
  4. ^ a b "2022 Cook PVI: District Map and List". Cook Political Report. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  5. ^ "Census 2010 shows Red states gaining congressional districts". Washington Post. Archived from the original on July 23, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  6. ^ "Mapping the Future: GOP will draw map in Texas". Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 30, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2013.
  7. ^ "Congressional District 35 election results". Archived from the original on November 11, 2012. Retrieved January 31, 2013.
  8. ^ "DistrictViewer". Texas Legislative Council. Retrieved January 31, 2013.
  9. ^ "Federal Court Rules Three Texas Congressional Districts Illegally Drawn" by Laurel Wamsley, NPR, March 11, 2017
  10. ^ "Federal court invalidates part of Texas congressional map" by Alexa Ura and Jim Malewitz, Texas Tribune, August 15, 2017
  11. ^ "Sotomayor: Supreme Court racial gerrymandering ruling comes at "serious costs to our democracy"". June 25, 2018. Retrieved November 6, 2018.