Texas's 27th congressional district
Texas's 27th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives covers the coastal bend of Texas' Gulf Coast consisting of Corpus Christi and Victoria up to Bastrop County near Austin and Wharton County near Houston. Its current Representative is Republican Michael Cloud. Cloud was elected to the district in a special election on June 30, 2018, to replace former Republican Representative Blake Farenthold, who had resigned on April 6.
The district is slightly less than 50% Hispanic, down from the 70% Hispanic population in the 2002-2010 cycles when the district reached from Corpus Christi to Brownsville.
In August 2017, a panel of federal judges ruled that the 27th district is unconstitutional, arguing that it displaces a Hispanic-opportunity district. The United States Supreme Court reversed the ruling though, pronouncing the district constitutional in Abbott v. Perez.List of members representing the district
