Texas's 15th congressional district
Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023
Representative	Monica De La Cruz R–Edinburg
Distribution	86.67% urban[1] 13.33% rural
Population (2024)	812,527[2]
Median household income	$62,554[3]
Ethnicity	81.4%Hispanic 15.3%White 1.1%Asian 1.0%Black 0.8%Two or more races 0.4% other
Cook PVI	R+7[4]

Texas's 15th congressional district of theUnited States House of Representatives includes a thin section of the far south of the state ofTexas. The district's current Representative isRepublicanMonica De La Cruz. Elected in 2022, De La Cruz is the first Republican and woman to represent the district.

Currently, the 15th Congressional District composes of a narrow strip of land running from westernHidalgo County in theRio Grande Valley northwards to easternGuadalupe County, to the east ofSan Antonio. The district includes the entirety ofBrooks,Jim Wells,Live Oak,Karnes, andWilson counties between Hidalgo and Guadalupe counties.

The district has generally given its congressmen very long tenures in Washington; only eight people, seven Democrats and one Republican, have ever represented it. The district's best-known Representative wasJohn Nance Garner, who represented the district from its creation in 1903 until 1933, and was Speaker of the House from 1931 to 1933. He ran withFranklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 and 1936 presidential campaigns, and was elected Vice President of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1941. The district was one of the first Latino-majority districts in the country, and has been represented by Latino congressmen since 1965.

Notably, this district narrowly voted more Republican in the House elections than the nation as a whole in 2020. Vincente Gonzalez won by 2.9 points while Democrats won the national vote by a combined 3.1 percentage points. It also voted more Republican than the national average while voting Democratic in the2020 United States presidential election, and the difference between the national vote and the result was wider in the presidential election than the House. Due to redistricting, incumbent Gonzalez in the2022 election ran in the34th congressional district. The Republican nominee, former insurance agent Monica De La Cruz defeated the Democratic nominee, businesswoman Michelle Vallejo.

For the118th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the2020 census), the district contains all or portions of the following counties and communities:^[7]

BrooksCounty(5)

All 5 communities

GuadalupeCounty(16)

Geronimo,Kingsbury,New Braunfels (part; also28th; shared withComal County),Redwood,Staples,Seguin (part; also28th)

HidalgoCounty(34)

Abram,Alton,César Chavez,Citrus City,Cuevitas,Doffing,Doolittle,Edinburg (part; also34th),Granjeno,Harding Gill Tract,Hargill,Havana,Hidalgo,La Blanca,La Coma Heights,La Homa,La Joya,Linn,Los Ebanos,McAllen (part; also34th),Mission,Monte Alto,Palmhurst,Palmview,Palmview South,Peñitas,Perezville,Pharr,Salida del Sol Estates,San Carlos (part; also34th),San Juan (part; also34th),South Alamo,Sullivan City,West Sharyland

Jim WellsCounty(17)

All 17 communities

KarnesCounty(4)

All 4 communities

Live OakCounty(2)

George West,Three Rivers

WilsonCounty(4)

All 4 communities

Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history	Counties
District established March 4, 1903
John N. Garner (Uvalde)	Democratic	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1933	58th 59th 60th 61st 62nd 63rd 64th 65th 66th 67th 68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd	Elected in 1902. Re-elected in 1904. Re-elected in 1906. Re-elected in 1908. Re-elected in 1910. Re-elected in 1912. Re-elected in 1914. Re-elected in 1916. Re-elected in 1918. Re-elected in 1920. Re-elected in 1922. Re-elected in 1924. Re-elected in 1926. Re-elected in 1928. Re-elected in 1930. Re-elected in 1932. Resigned to becomeVice President of the United States.	1903–1911 [data missing]
					1911–1919 [data missing]
					1919–1935 [data missing]
Vacant		March 4, 1933 – April 23, 1933	73rd
Milton H. West (Brownsville)	Democratic	April 23, 1933 – October 28, 1948	73rd 74th 75th 76th 77th 78th 79th 80th	Elected to finish Garner's term. Re-elected in 1934. Re-elected in 1936. Re-elected in 1938. Re-elected in 1940. Re-elected in 1942. Re-elected in 1944. Re-elected in 1946. Died.
					1935–1959 [data missing]
Vacant		October 28, 1948 – December 4, 1948	80th
Lloyd Bentsen (McAllen)	Democratic	December 4, 1948 – January 3, 1955	80th 81st 82nd 83rd	Elected to finish West's term. Re-elected in 1948. Re-elected in 1950. Re-elected in 1952. Retired.
Joe M. Kilgore (McAllen)	Democratic	January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1965	84th 85th 86th 87th 88th	Elected in 1954. Re-elected in 1956. Re-elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Re-elected in 1962. Retired.
					1959–1967 [data missing]
Kika de la Garza (McAllen)	Democratic	January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1997	89th 90th 91st 92nd 93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd 104th	Elected in 1964. Re-elected in 1966. Re-elected in 1968. Re-elected in 1970. Re-elected in 1972. Re-elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1976. Re-elected in 1978. Re-elected in 1980. Re-elected in 1982. Re-elected in 1984. Re-elected in 1986. Re-elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Re-elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Retired.
					1967–1969 [data missing]
					1969–1973 [data missing]
					1973–1975 [data missing]
					1975–1983 [data missing]
					1983–1985 [data missing]
					1985–1993 [data missing]
					1993–2003 Bee,Brooks,De Witt,Goliad,Hidalgo,Jim Wells,Karnes,Kleberg,Live Oak,San Patricio, andWillacy
Rubén Hinojosa (Mercedes)	Democratic	January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2017	105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th 111th 112th 113th 114th	Elected in 1996. Re-elected in 1998. Re-elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Re-elected in 2010. Re-elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Retired.
					2003–2005 Bee,Brooks,Goliad,Hidalgo,Kleberg,Live Oak,Nueces, andSan Patricio
					2005–2007 Bastrop,Bee,Brooks,Cameron,Colorado,De Witt,Fayette,Goliad,Hidalgo,Jim Wells,Lavaca,Refugio, andSan Patricio
					2007–2013 Bee,Brooks,Cameron,De Witt,Duval,Goliad,Hidalgo,Jim Wells,Karnes,Live Oak,Refugio, andSan Patricio
					2013–2023 Brooks,Duval,Guadalupe (part),Hidalgo (part),Jim Hogg,Karnes,Live Oak, andWilson (part)[8]
Vicente Gonzalez (McAllen)	Democratic	January 3, 2017 – January 3, 2023	115th 116th 117th	Elected in 2016. Re-elected in 2018. Re-elected in 2020. Redistricted to the34th district.
Monica De La Cruz (Edinburg)	Republican	January 3, 2023 – present	118th 119th	Elected in 2022. Re-elected in 2024.	2023–present Brooks,Guadalupe (part),Hidalgo (part),Jim Wells,Karnes,Live Oak, andWilson[9]

• List of United States congressional districts

Specific

General

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989).The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982).The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–presentArchived April 23, 2010, at theWayback Machine

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