Voters in and around Dallas are choosing U.S. House members this fall in districts that look different from the ones they voted in two years ago, the result of a congressional map Texas lawmakers redrew in 2025, midway through the decade.
Congressional lines are normally reset once every 10 years, after new census figures arrive. KERA News reported that President Donald Trump urged the Legislature to draw a new map last year, with the aim of adding five Republican seats in the House.
Democrats in the Texas House left the state to deny a quorum and block the plan, but the map ultimately passed, and the station reported that lawsuits against it did not stop it from being used for this election.
KERA reporter Dylan Duke, speaking on the station's NTX Now program, walked through three North Texas districts where the changes reshuffled the field.
District 33
The current representative, Democrat Marc Veasey, is not on the ballot in the new District 33; KERA reported that his Fort Worth home was placed outside it. Former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, a Democrat who had been running for the U.S. Senate, left that race and entered this one instead.
That set up a primary against U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson, a Democrat who moved over from District 32. Allred led the March 3 primary with 45.5% to Johnson's 34.0%, and he won the May 26 runoff, according to Ballotpedia, which noted the new District 33 holds roughly one third of the residents of the old District 32. Allred faces Republican Patrick Gillespie on Nov. 3.
District 32
KERA reported that the redraw made District 32 much more favorable to Republicans, and Johnson chose not to seek reelection there. The race is between Republican Jace Yarbrough, a former Republican precinct chair in Dallas County, and Democrat Dan Barrios, a former member of the Richardson City Council.
