In Congress, Fort Worth area incumbents win handily; Dallas sends Crockett to Congress

Incumbents in Fort Worth area congressional House races won handily Tuesday night, according to unofficial election results.

Of the seven congressional House districts in greater Fort Worth, two races — District 6 and District 25 — featured candidates running unopposed. Only one — District 30, representing south Dallas, southern Dallas County and a sliver of eastern Tarrant County — did not feature an incumbent.

All seven House seats — five held by Republicans and two held by Democrats — remained in the hands of their respective parties.

House District 6

Rep. Jake Ellzey, who took office is 2021, ran unopposed.

District 6 contains Ellis, Navarro, Hill, Anderson and Cherokee counties and parts of Tarrant, Dallas, Collin, Denton, Johnson and Freestone counties.

House District 12

Incumbent Republican Kay Granger won the race for District 12, according to unofficial results.

Of the more than 235,000 votes counted, Rep. Granger received 64% of votes. Hunt got 36%.

Granger has represented District 12 since 1997.

In her last term, Granger counted among her political wins the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allocation of $403 million to build Panther Island — despite voting against the federal infrastructure legislation that made the funding possible.

She missed the vote to certify the 2020 election results, because she had COVID-19.

Hunt, 27, is a homeless outreach specialist with My Health My Resources Tarrant County.

District 12 includes the western half of Tarrant County, an eastern portion of Wise County and all of Parker County.

House District 24

After maintaining a lead over her Democratic opponent throughout the evening, incumbent Republican Beth Van Duyne won her re-election bid for District 24.

Of the nearly 300,000 votes reported, Rep. Van Duyne got 60% of votes, and McDowell got 40%.

Van Duyne, the former mayor of Irving, took office in 2021. She is one of the 147 congressional Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election results.

McDowell is a retired CPA and the immediate past president of the American Association of University Women-North Dallas.

District 24 includes northwest Dallas County and northeast Tarrant County.

House District 25

Republican incumbent Roger Williams ran unopposed.

Williams has represented the district since 2013. He also voted to overturn the 2020 election results.

District 25 includes eastern Tarrant County, southern Parker County, western Johnson County, a slice of northweastern Dallas County as well as Hood, Jack, Palo Pinto, Somervell, Erath, Comanche, Eastland, Young and Stephens counties and most of Callahan County.

House District 26

Incumbent Republican Michael C. Burgess won the race for District 26, according to unofficial results reported Tuesday night.

Of the more than 260,000 votes reported, Tuesday, Burgess had 69% of votes. His opponent Libertarian Mike Kolls got 31%.

Burgess, a former obstetrician and gynecologist, took office in 2003. He is one of the 147 congressional Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election results.

“What the voters are telling us loud and clear is that they’re worried about the economy, worried about security and safety — border security ties into that. They want us to stop spending so much money, which is contributing to inflation,” Burgess told the Star-Telegram Tuesday night. “We’ve come through two years of just massive increased federal spending. It hurts people at the middle and lower ends of the economic spectrum.”

District 26 includes Cooke County, most of Denton County and the southern half of Wise County.

House District 30

Democrat Jasmine Crockett will replace retiring longtime Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson.

Four candidates vied for Johnson’s District 30 seat. With nearly 180,000 votes reported, Crockett had 75% of votes. Republican James Rodgers received 22%.

Crockett is a civil rights attorney who was elected to represented district 100 in the Texas Legislature in 2020.

Johnson has represented District 30 since 1993.

House District 33

House District 33 was called for Democrat Rep. Marc Veasey shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday night.

With more than 113,000 votes reported, Veasey received 72% of the vote. His Republican opponent Pat Gillespie has 26% of the vote.

Veasey has represented the district since 2013. Previously, he served as a member of the Texas State House for eight years starting in 2005.

“I am honored and humbled that the people of Texas’ 33rd District, have again, elected me to represent them in the U.S. House of Representatives. I look forward to serving existing and new neighborhoods, in both Dallas and Tarrant counties, added after reapportionment, in the 118th Congress,” Veasey said in a statement to the Star-Telegram.

District 33 includes parts of Dallas and Tarrant counties.