Texas's 21st congressional district

Texas’s 21st congressional district to the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves the area northeast of San Antonio in the state of Texas. The current Representative from the twenty-first district is Lamar S. Smith.

Counties wholly within the district

 * Bandera
 * Blanco
 * Comal
 * Kendall
 * Kerr
 * Real

Counties partially within the district

 * Bexar
 * Travis

Cities wholly within the district

 * Kerrville
 * Live Oak
 * New Braunfels
 * Universal City

Cities partially within the district

 * Austin
 * San Antonio

History of Texas’s 21st District
Texas received an twenty-first congressional district in 1935. In the 1934 elections Charles L. South, a Democrat, was elected as the district’s first representative.

2006
In the case of League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, 548 U. S. 399 (2006), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the configuration of Texas’ 15th, 21st, 23rd, 25th and 28th congressional districts as drawn by the Texas Legislature violated the National Voting Rights Act of 1965. Replacement district boundaries for 2006 election were subsequently issued for the five districts by the local federal district court, and on election day in November, these five districts had open primaries, with a candidate being elected if he or she received over 50 percent of the vote, and runoff elections in December to decide elections in which no candidate gained an absolute majority in November.

In the 2006 election, Lamar Smith defeated veteran and college administrator John Courage with 60% of the vote.

2000
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