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Republican John Lujan won the Nov. 2 special election runoff for Texas House District 118, a historically Democratic-leaning district.

Republican John Lujan wins special election runoff to flip Texas House seat in San Antonio

Democrat Frank Ramirez had the slightest of leads over Republican John Lujan in the special election runoff for Texas House District 118.

And he has a pretty solid list of Southside recommendations.

Texas voters will decide on eight proposed changes to the state’s Constitution. Voters in the San Antonio area will pick a new Texas House member. And Austin voters will decide whether to require more police officers.

Voters across Texas will head to the polls on Tuesday to vote on eight amendments to the Texas Constitution. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Click here to find out where you can vote.

U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez announced last week he’ll seek reelection in a new seat, leaving his 15th Congressional District open for the 2022 election. Candidate filing begins Nov. 13.

Eight constitutional amendments are on November's ballot, along with Texas House District 118 and several school districts' bond programs.

Republican John Lujan and Democrat Frank Ramirez will face off for the Texas House District 118 seat in a Nov. 2 runoff election.

Republicans are pushing to flip the seat of former state Rep. Leo Pacheco.

A Republican who once held the seat and a Democrat will go head-to-head in a runoff after no clear winner was decided in the special election to fill the seat of former state Rep. Leo Pacheco of San Antonio.

Lujan is a Republican who previously held the seat and is hoping to help his party make inroads in South Texas. Ramirez is a former San Antonio City Council staffer.

A Republican who once held the seat and a Democrat will go head-to-head in a runoff after no clear winner was decided Tuesday night in the special election to fill the seat of former state Rep. Leo Pacheco of San Antonio.

Though special elections tend to attract fewer voters, the Bexar County elections administrator said HD 118 turnout was still comparatively low.

After upsets in previous special elections and President Joe Biden’s underperformance in South Texas last year, Democrats running for an open Texas House seat are taking the GOP threat seriously.

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Three Democrats and two Republicans are hoping to win the Texas House District 118 seat to succeed Leo Pacheco.

Voters in southern and eastern parts of Bexar County will be headed to the polls Tuesday for a special election to fill the seat of former state Rep. Leo Pacheco of San Antonio.

The two Republicans are vying to replace former state Rep. Jake Ellzey, who is now in Congress.

Five candidates have filed for the September 28 special election to fill the seat of former state Rep. Leo Pacheco, D-San Antonio, according to the...

The field for the Sept. 28 contest has attracted three Democrats and two Republicans.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has set a Tuesday, September 28 special election to fill the seat of State Rep. Leo Pacheco, D-San Antonio, who resigned...

Gov. Greg Abbott may have signed the voting bill Tuesday, but Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacque Callanen said those changes wouldn’t go into effect anytime soon.

A Sept. 28 special election is scheduled to fill the District 118 Texas House seat vacated by Democrat Leo Pacheco last month.

Gov. Greg Abbott set the special election date Tuesday. The race has already drawn several candidates from both parties, and Republicans are eager to make inroads in the San Antonio-area district.

State Rep. Leo Pacheco, D-San Antonio, will resign from the Texas House of Representatives to teach public administration at San Antonio College, the Express-News reports. Pacheco...

Pacheco, who was first elected in 2018, announced that he will be resigning as a representative to teach public administration at San Antonio College, according to the San Antonio Express-News.

One House Democrat from Bexar County said he "will not go quietly" if Republicans send law enforcement after him.

Texas law enforcement agencies have long dealt with troublesome cops who move from one department to another. Transparency bills aim to make their disciplinary records more easily accessible to law enforcement agencies.

The Bexar County Democratic Party has censured State Rep. Leo Pacheco, who once served as its chairman, for voting to approve a controversial bill nixing...

Two key Democratic primary races, in Texas Senate District 19 and House District 119, were headed to runoffs early Wednesday. Texas House District 119With Gutierrez in the running for Texas Senate, three Democrats were also vying for his seat in Texas House District 119. Other State House RacesThree Texas House districts in Bexar County have candidates of both parties running unopposed. In House District 117, three-term Democratic State Rep. Phillip Cortez was set to run in November against Republican Carlos Antonio Raymond. Incumbent State Rep. Leo Pacheco (D-San Antonio) ran unopposed in the primary for his second term representing House District 118.

The former human resource specialist for the district praised this colleges public administration program in an interview Nov. 30. The public administration program is well-balanced, he said. It also has human resources, and the public sector has finance so it prepares even for the business element out there in the community.Pacheco said some representatives in San Antonio City Council have a public administration degree. They are Sara Samano, former counselor; Fred Adams, former public administration professor; and Sylvia De Leon, coordinator for the public administration program. Sara convinced me to register for the public administration program and told me if I didnt like it to drop out, Pacheco said.

CARRIZO SPRINGS, Texas - Some state lawmakers on Tuesday toured a government shelter in Carrizo Springs for unaccompanied migrant teens. The facility is used to house unaccompanied teens, ages 13-17, while the government looks for a sponsor for them in the United States. Democratic state Reps. Diego Bernal and Leo Pacheco, of San Antonio, toured the facility. Bernal and Pacheco are critical of how the government is handling the migrant teens. "It may not be like Tornillo and other Border Patrol areas that are worse," Pacheco said.