Texas's 2nd congressional district
Year Office Results
2000 President Bush 63-37%
2004 President Bush 63-36%
2008 President McCain 60-40%
2012 President Romney 63-36%
2016 President Trump 52-43%
2018 Senate Cruz 50-49%
2018 Governor Abbott 56-43%
Recent election results from statewide races
Texas's 2nd congressional district of the United States House of Representatives is in the southeastern portion of the state of Texas. It encompasses much of northern and western Houston. From 2002 to 2012 it stretched from Houston's northern suburbs through eastern Harris County, and across Southeast Texas to the Louisiana border. As of the 2000 census, District 2 represented 651,619 people. The district's configuration dates from the 2003 Texas redistricting, when most of the old 9th District was split among three neighboring districts. The four-term Democratic incumbent in the 9th District, Nick Lampson, was unseated by Republican Ted Poe, a longtime felony court judge in Harris County. In November 2017, Poe announced that he would retire from Congress at the end of his current term, and did not seek re-election in 2018. Dan Crenshaw was elected on November 6th and is currently serving as congressman.