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Juan Garcia de Paredes

164 candidates are running for Texas’ 38 U.S. House districts—the most since 2016

This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Texas was Dec. 11, 2023. 

One hundred sixty-four candidates are running for Texas’ 38 U.S. House districts, including 63 Democrats and 101 Republicans. That’s 4.3 candidates per district, the lowest number since 2016, when 3.5 candidates ran.

In 2022, the first election after the number of congressional districts in Texas increased from 36 to 38, 5.8 candidates ran per district. In 2020, 6.4 candidates ran, and 5.8 candidates ran in 2018.

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