 At the time of Kuempel's House election, two Democratic representatives, Aaron Pena of Edinburg and Allan Ritter of Nederland, switched affiliation to the Republican Party.Their defections increased the Republican total to one hundred members, thus giving the GOP a supermajority in the Texas House.Kuempel's victory brings the number of Republicans in the Texas House to a record 101 members in January 2011, Democrats holding the remaining 49 of the 150 total seats in the body.