DDHQ · called Nov. 4, 2:45 a.m. CST; returns 3:06 a.m. CST, more than 95% reporting. National geographic context map: Nov. 4, 2:43 a.m. CST, before this race call. State bands show seat counts, not district boundaries.
Republican Lance Gooden defeated Democrat Chelsey Hockett in Texas’s 5th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. The result keeps the seat in Republican hands.
With more than 95% reporting, DDHQ’s Nov. 4, 3:06 a.m. Central returns showed Gooden with 130,278 votes, or 51.47%, and Hockett with 122,855 votes, or 48.53%. Gooden led by 7,423 votes in that snapshot.
