Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s understandable if Tarrant County and Texas Republican leaders didn’t quite know how to respond when they lost a state Senate ...

While 2025 was ostensibly an off-year for elections, it proved to be filled with fascinating and important contests, marked by one unmistakable trend: Democratic candidates consistently overperformed, ...

Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate and flipped a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

It’s not every day that national Democrats and Republicans flip out over the results of a special election runoff for a state Senate seat in Texas (or anywhere else). But that’s exactly what’s ...

With ballots tallied from all but a handful of voting centers, Rehmet had 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent, Leigh Wambsganss, who had a massive spending advantage.

DALLAS — Democrat Taylor Rehmet may never get the chance to cast a vote from his new seat in the Texas state Senate. But merely affixing his name to a seat that hasn’t had Democratic representation in ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is warning a Democratic candidate’s victory in a Texas state Senate race could have implications for the Republican Party in the upcoming midterm elections. In a shocking ...

Republican Leigh Wambsganss speaks to supporters at Niki’s Italian Bistro in North Richland Hills after she advanced to a runoff for the District 9 Senate seat on Nov. 4, 2025. She was joined by ...