Texas Senate, District 19

District 19 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Brewster, Crockett, Dimmitt, Edwards, Frio, Kinney, Maverick, Medina, Pecos, Real, Reeves, Terrell, Uvalde, Val Verde, Zavala counties, and portions of Bexar and Atascosa counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The current Senator from District 19 is Carlos I. Uresti, a prominent San Antonio attorney, who has held this office since November 12, 2006.

District 19 is one of the largest legislative districts in the United States, containing all or part of 17 counties and covering more than 35,000 square miles and about 400 miles of the Texas-Mexico border. The district contains 55 public school districts, more than 23,000 oil and gas wells, 10 state parks, three national parks, and more than 2,700 miles of highways and interstate transportation infrastructure.^[1] Redistricting in 2010 led to District 19 losing several western countries and gaining several eastern ones.

Election history

Election history of District 19 from 1992.^[2]

Most recent election

2012

Texas general election, 2012: Senate District 19[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Michael Berlanga	83,522	40.59
	Democratic	Carlos Uresti	122,214	59.40
Turnout			205,736
	Democratic hold

Previous elections

2010

Texas general election, 2010: Senate District 19[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Dick Bowen	53,024	45.08
	Democratic	Carlos Uresti	61,327	52.13
	Libertarian	Mette A. Baker	3,269	2.77
Turnout			117,620
	Democratic hold

Democratic primary, 2010: Senate District 19[5]
Candidate		Votes	%	±%
✓	Carlos Uresti (Incumbent)	25,969	76.16
	Luis Juarez Jr.	8,125	23.83
Turnout		34,094	100.00

2006

Texas general election, 2006: Senate District 19[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Dick Bowen	40,556	40.82	+0.18
	Democratic	Carlos Uresti	58,793	59.18	-0.18
Majority			18,237	18.36	-0.37
Turnout			99,349		+2.70
	Democratic hold

Special election, 7 November 2006: Senate District 19, Unexpired term[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Dick Bowen	39,312	40.64	+40.64
	Democratic	Carlos Uresti	57,426	59.36	-40.64
Majority			18,237	18.72	-81.28
Turnout			96,738		+26.31
	Democratic hold

Democratic primary, 2006: Senate District 19[8]
Candidate		Votes	%	±%
	Frank L. Madla (Incumbent)	18,936	43.48
✓	Carlos Uresti	24,610	56.51
Turnout		12,025

Republican primary, 2006: Senate District 19[9]
Candidate		Votes	%	±%
✓	Dick Bowen	3,513	51.32
	Darrel Brown	3,332	48.67
Turnout		6,845

2002

Texas general election, 2002: Senate District 19[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Frank L. Madla (Incumbent)	76,590	100.00	0.00
Majority			76,590	100.00	+37.89
Turnout			76,590		+37.89
	Democratic hold

1998

Texas general election, 1998: Senate District 19[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Frank L. Madla (Incumbent)	55,544	100.00	0.00
Majority			55,544	100.00	-8.07
Turnout			55,544		-8.07
	Democratic hold

1994

Texas general election, 1994: Senate District 19[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Frank L. Madla	60,422	100.00
Majority			60,422	100.00
Turnout			60,422		-45.34
	Democratic hold

1992

Texas general election, 1992: Senate District 19[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Gregory Luna (Incumbent)	86,742	50.94
	Republican	Ernesto Ancira	76,967	45.20
	Libertarian	James "Ted" Bonnet	6,551	3.84
Majority			9,775	5.54
Turnout			176,260
	Democratic hold

District officeholders

Legislature	Senator, District 19	Counties in District
1	Henry Lawrence Kinney	Goliad, Refugio, San Patricio.
2	Edward Fitzgerald Henry Lawrence Kinney	Goliad, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio.
3	Henry Lawrence Kinney
4	James Charles Wilson	Calhoun, Colorado, Jackson, Matagorda, Victoria, Wharton.
5	Charles G. Keenan	Grimes, Madison, Montgomery, Walker.
6	Jesse Grimes
7
8
9	John Boyd	All of Freestone, Limestone, Navarro. Portion of Ellis.
10	Thomas C. Neal William C. Wilson William Mynatt Peck
11	John C. Yarbro	Ellis, Freestone, Limestone, Navarro.
12	Andrew J. Evans S. W. Ford	Falls, Limestone, McLennan.
13	S. W. Ford
14	George Bernard Erath	Bosque, Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Coryell, Hamilton, McLennan, Runnels.
15	Andrew Phelps McCormick	Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda.
16	Andrew Phelps McCormick Robert Gould Street
17	James B. Stubbs
18	Avery L. Matlock	Archer, Armstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Dickens, Donley, Floyd, Garza, Gray, Greer, Hale, Hall, Hansford, Hardeman, Hartley, Haskell, Hemphill, Hockley, Hutchinson, Kent, King, Knox, Lamb, Lipscomb, Lubbock, Lynn, Montague, Moore, Motley, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Stonewall, Swisher, Terry, Throckmorton, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Yoakum, Young.
19	Temple Lea Houston
20
21	John Hall Stephens
22
23	James W. Dickson	Bastrop, Burleson, Lee, Washington.
24
25	Heber Stone
26
27	Sidney L. Staples
28	James M. Hale
29	James M. Hale O. P. Storm
30	Quintus et Ultimos Watson
31
32
33
34	Paul D. Page
35
36
37
38	Richard S. Bowers
39	Alvin J. Wirtz	Blanco, Caldwell, Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays.
40
41
42	Welly K. Hopkins
43
44	Welly K. Hopkins Rudolph A. Weinert
45	Rudolph A. Weinert
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53		Atascosa, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal, Frio, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays, Kendall, Medina, Wilson.
54
55
56
57
58	Walter Richter
59
60	V. E. "Red" Berry	Portion of Bexar.
61
62	Glenn Kothmann
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70	Frank Tejeda
71
72
73	Gregory Luna
74	Frank L. Madla	All of Brewster, Crockett, Edwards, Jeff Davis, Kinney, Maverick, Medina, Pecos, Presidio, Real, Terrell, Val Verde. Portions of Atascosa, Bexar, Culberson, Sutton, Uvalde.
75
76
77
78		All of Bandera, Brewster, Crockett, Culberson, Edwards, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Kinney, Loving, Maverick, Medina, Pecos, Presidio, Real, Reeves, Sutton, Terrell, Uvalde, Val Verde, Ward, Winkler. Portions of Bexar, El Paso.
79	Frank L. Madla Carlos I. Uresti
80	Carlos I. Uresti
81
82		All of Brewster, Crockett, Dimmitt, Edwards, Frio, Kinney, Maverick, Medina, Pecos, Real, Reeves, Terrell, Uvalde, Val Verde, and Zavala counties. Portions of Bexar and Atascosa counties

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2. Uncontested primary elections are not shown.
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4. "2010 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2014-09-30.
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13. "1992 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2006-11-27.