Menefee, Sylvester Turner and Houston
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The two candidates are competing to fill Houston’s long-vacant congressional seat.
Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee and Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member, are competing in a runoff election for Texas’s 18th Congressional District, a safely Democratic seat left vacant by Representative Sylvester Turner’s death in March 2025.
Saturday is the last day for CD18 voters to cast their ballot and decide between Former Houston City Councilwoman Amanda Edwards and former Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee.
Christian Menefee and Amanda Edwards are competing in a special election runoff Saturday to complete the term of late U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner, who died last March.