TX-15 Texas's 15th District

Candidate

Predicted Vote %

Predicted Win %

Vicente Gonzalez

61.7%

98.2%

Tim Westley

38.3%

1.8%

BPI

Blair Partisan Index

Measures how strongly a district leans toward the Democratic or Republican Party compared to the nation as a whole.

 

6.9%

SEER Prediction

SEER Prediction

Forecasted Democratic % of vote, without considering national mood or polling.

 

60.5%

District Profile Last Updated: Oct. 5, 2018, 11:47 a.m.

Texas 15th Congressional District is a thin strip in southern Texas that borders Mexico. It is 81.87% Hispanic and the median income is $46,048. 
Texas 15th has always had a democratic representative. The recent incumbent was Rubén Hinojosa, who retired in 2016. He won 57% of the vote in 2016 and 54% of the vote in 2014.
The democrat candidate is Vicente Gonzalez. He was first elected to the house in 2016. He is the incumbent. The republican candidate, Tim Westley, served in the army for 7 years and the Texas national guard for 1. He has previously been a public school teacher, a pastor, and a mail carrier, and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Phoenix.

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