HOUSTON — Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner won the general election to fill former U.S. Rep Sheila Jackson Lee’s seat in the 18th Congressional District.
Erica Lee Carter, the daughter of Jackson Lee, won the special election to complete Jackson Lee’s current term.
On Election Day, Harris County residents voted twice for Texas’s 18th Congressional District seat that once belonged to the former U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. Jackson Lee, who held the seat from 1995 until her death earlier this year. She died at the age of 74 due to pancreatic cancer.
The two races to fill her seat included the special election to finish the former congresswoman’s current term and the regular congressional election that covers the next two-year term.
Jackson Lee’s daughter, Democrat Erica Lee Carter, threw her hat into the special election race to complete her mother’s term. She ran against two Republicans, Maria Dunn and Kevin O. Dural. Carter will hold the seat for a few weeks until Sylvester Turner takes over.
In August, just a month after the congresswoman’s death, Turner was selected by the District 18 Executive Committee to appear on the ballot. Turner was up against Republican opponent Lana Centonze.
Jackson Lee announced her pancreatic cancer diagnosis on June 2 before passing July 19.