Democrats Christian Menefee and Amanda Edwards are competing for a vacant U.S. House seat from Houston. Saturday's special election will narrow the GOP’s already slim House majority. Menefee is the Harris County attorney. Edwards is a former Houston City Council member. The winner will replace the late Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner for the rest of his term, which ends when a new Congress is sworn in to office in January 2027. Turner died in March 2025, but the first, all-parties primary for the special election didn’t occur until November under a schedule set by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott. Because no candidate won more than 50% of the vote, the contest moved to Saturday’s runoff between the top two vote-getters.
