Texas's 16th congressional district of the

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includes almost all of El Paso and most of its suburbs in the state of

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. The current Representative is Democrat Veronica Escobar. The district was initially created in 1903. For most of the next six decades, it stretched across , from El Paso in the west to the Permian Basin ( Midland and

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) in the east. However, after Texas' original 1960 district map was thrown out as a result of '' Wesberry v. Sanders'', the 16th was shrunk down to the city of El Paso (except a sliver in the east) and most of its surrounding suburban

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. Since the 1990s, the 16th has been the only Democratic bastion in heavily Republican West Texas. While it has been a majority-Hispanic district since the 1970s, only two Hispanics have ever represented it,

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and Escobar.

Election results from presidential races

List of members representing the district

Recent elections

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

2016

2018

2020

2022

Historical district boundaries

References

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Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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