Houston's Christian Menefee sworn in to U.S. House, ending a year without representation in Houston's 18th Congressional District.

Voters in Texas' 18th District have had little break in a series of elections as the result of the Republican-controlled state Legislature's redrawing of congressional districts last year.

The Houston-centered congressional seat has been vacant for the past 332 days, since the death of U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner.

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee declared victory in Saturday's special election.

Christian Menefee wins special election runoff in Texas Congressional District 18, defeating Amanda Edwards with 68% of the vote.

The challenge for Christian Menefee will be balancing the immediate demands of governing with the realities of a campaign for CD-18 that never stopped.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet may never get the chance to cast a vote from his new seat in the Texas state Senate. But merely affixing his name to a seat that hasn’t seen Democratic representation in decades set off alarms throughout Texas and U.