Candidates for Texas’s 18th District criticize Gov. Abbott’s election timeline, leaving nearly 800,000 residents ...

Gov. Abbott sets a special election for Texas's 18th District on Nov. 4, 2025, with a candidate deadline of Sept. 3.

State legislators and Democratic leaders are demanding Gov. Greg Abbott schedule a vote to fill the seat left vacant by the ...

Turner, who represented the 760,000 people of Texas' 18th Congressional District, died suddenly on March 5.

Sylvester Turner. Turner, a former Houston mayor, died March 5, just a few weeks into his first term in Congress as the representative for Texas's 18th Congressional District. The solidly ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said there would be a special election to fill the vacant seat after Rep. Sylvester Turner's death.