There are only 150 seats in the Texas House of Representatives, and in our highly politicized state, every seat represents a crucial vote on essential issues we face as Texans. House District 118 covers portions of South San Antonio and South Bexar County, including Somerset, Losoya, and Elmendorf, but also stretches into east and northeast Bexar County (see map).
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How we got here
HD 118 was represented by State Rep. Leo Pacheco (D) for the past two legislative sessions. However, after the last session, he announced he would resign in August (source). That initiated a special election called by Gov. Abbott, which was held on Sept. 28. No candidate achieved 50% or more of the total vote, which prompted a runoff election between the top two candidates.
Who is running?
There is one Democrat and one Republican in this special runoff election. Frank Ramirez (D) (candidate website) and John Lujan (R) (candidate website) were the top two candidates. Lujan received 41.5% of the total votes in the Sept. special election (2,938) and Ramirez earned 20% of the vote (1,416).
There were three other candidates who ran for the seat. By party, there were 3,561 votes for Republican candidates and 3,514 votes for Democratic candidates.
Image Left: Frank Ramirez (D); Right: John Lujan (R) (Source: campaign Facebook pages)
Voting information