 In 2008, Emmett defeated fellow Republican Charles Bacarisse, the former Harris County district clerk, in the primary election to complete the last two years of the term that Eckels vacated.He went on to defeat Democrat David Mincberg in the 2008 general election and won a full term in 2010 by defeating former Houston City Council member Gordon Quan.Emmett ran unopposed in the general election held on November 4, 2014, after the Democrat nominee, Ahmed Robert Hassan, a real estate and mortgage broker, withdrew from the race.