These maps show how Latino voters helped Democrats flip a reliably red Texas Senate seat

[RandySF]

Democrat Taylor Rehmet’s recent upset victory over a MAGA star to represent a reliably red Texas Senate district was, at least in part, due to a significant leftward shift by Latino voters. These maps help illustrate the point.

Precincts in Senate District 9 with a majority of Hispanic residents swung on average 34 percentage points toward Rehmet compared to the margin garnered by the Democratic nominee in 2022, when the seat was last on the ballot.

Across the entire district, VoteHub estimated that Rehmet captured about 79% of the Hispanic vote, a 26-point improvement on the 53% that went for Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024 — the biggest shift of any racial group in the district.

The upshot was a decisive 14-point win for Rehmet, an Air Force veteran and union leader, over GOP activist Leigh Wambsganss in last weekend’s special election runoff.






https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/06/texas-senate-district-9-taylor-rehmet-latino-voters-swing-democrats/

[Phoenix61]

1. I love it when Karma smacks some asshats that

desperately deserve it. The R’s were so sure they had the Latino vote locked down they gerrymandered the entire state based on that assumption. They weakened R support in some districts to pull it off. Seems it might bite them where the good Lord split them.🤣🤣🤣