WASHINGTON — Democratic Reps. Al Green and Christian Menefee are headed to a runoff election in their bids for Texas’ newly redrawn 18th Congressional District.
Neither won more than 50% of the vote in Tuesday night’s primary election. Menefee led Green by about 2 percentage points, but fell short of winning outright as two other Democratic contenders pulled votes from him and Green. The two congressmen will now face each other in the runoff election on May 26.
This congressional seat is safely Democratic, so whoever wins the runoff will almost certainly win the general election in November.
Green, 78, has been in Congress since 2005. He currently represents the 9th Congressional District, but after Republicans pushed through partisan redistricting last year, it bumped him into the new 18th Congressional District.
Menefee, 37, won a January special election in this district’s old boundaries to finish out the term started by the late Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner, who died in March 2025.
