The November 2020 U.S. House elections left House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
TX-06 is centered in southeast Tarrant County (Fort Worth), which contains 70 percent of the district’s voters, extending southeast into exurban Ellis County (25 percent) and rural Navarro County (5 percent).
During the past decade, TX-06 has transitioned from red to pink, with the GOP presidential candidate winning by 17 percentage points in 2012, 12 points in 2016 and 3 points in 2020. The TX-06 races followed a similar pattern, with the Republican margin of victory dropping from 19 points (2012), 25 points (2014) and 19 points (2016), to 8 points (2018) and 9 points(2020).
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Twenty-three candidates (11 Republicans, 10 Democrats, 1 Libertarian and 1 independent) are running to replace second-term Republican Rep. Ron Wright