Election Day is less than a month away. The 18th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives is up for grabs. This seat has been held for the past 30 years by the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.
If you are a District 18 voter, this race will appear on your ballot twice, once as a special election item and once in the general election.
The seat is vacant due to the death of a member of the House of Representatives before the expiration of the term, and the position will be held from Election Day until the end of the year in a special election before the term expires.
“This is not a swing district,” said political science expert Richard Murray. “We value democracy so much that control of Congress will not be affected by what’s happening in the 18th District.”
Richard Murray, a longtime political science expert, said the district was first created as a Black Heritage District in 1972.
“There used to be a lot of neighborhoods with a lot of black people, but now there are fewer neighborhoods and more mixed neighborhoods. There’s more Hispanics, there’s more Asians, and the neighborhoods have changed,” Murray said. “We can almost always expect black Democrats to be elected from now on.”
Christopher Wolfe, associate professor of political science at the University of St. Thomas, told ABC13 that the upcoming election will be a little confusing for some people because the seat will appear twice on the ballots of people who live in the 18th District. He said it was possible.
“The two months immediately after the election until January, someone else will actually be filling the seat for that period,” Wolf said.
The public needs to understand that voters in the district will not only vote to decide who will hold the seat until the end of the year, but will also vote to decide who will hold the seat for the next two-year term, which begins in January. It is claimed that there is.
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