WASHINGTON - The odd shapes tell the story. A huge Republican majority in the Houston-area 2nd congressional district represented by Ted Poe curls around the region from Lake Houston, northeast of ...

After having more than a dozen competitive races in the Houston area in 2020, a Rice University political expert believes the new maps create virtually no competitive races for next year's election.

Democrats and Republicans are poised for a Supreme Court fight about political line-drawing with the potential to alter the balance of power across a country starkly divided between the two parties ...

Lawmakers have been emboldened to draw maps that protect incumbents and their political parties, he said, because the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled partisan gerrymandering is OK.

Facing the possibility of losing control of the U.S. House next year, Republicans are considering aggressively gerrymandering ...

Campaign manger Brain Patrick, left, and Salman Bhojani, a former candidate for Texas Senate District 9, browse through campaign material at Bhojani's offices in Irving, on Oct. 17, 2021.

State Rep. JULIE JOHNSON, D-Farmers Branch, looks through the maps as Rep. CHRIS TURNER, D-Grand Prairie, sits at his desk while the Texas House considers HB1 the redistricting bill during the ...

But here we are. If Texas Republicans don’t redraw the map, they will buck Trump but remain true to the politics of ...

ABC13's This Week in Texas covers 2023's political twists, featuring GOP rifts and local Democratic Party conflicts while offering a glimpse into anticipated 2024 stories.

Jennifer Clark, a political scientist at the University of Houston, said that’s a sound strategy for political challengers in regular years, but the redistricting cycle always comes with the ...