Texas Redistricting and the 2026 Primaries: What Changed and Why It Matters for Houston
This report examines the 2025 mid-decade redistricting of Texas’s 38 U.S. House districts, with a focused analysis of how the new congressional map reshapes political representation and electoral dynamics ahead of the 2026 primaries—particularly in the Houston metropolitan area. The analysis compares the 2021 and 2025 district maps to assess changes in population continuity, partisan lean, racial and ethnic composition of the citizen voting age population (CVAP), and voter turnout patterns in recent Democratic and Republican primaries.