In the 2023 legislative session that convened Tuesday, 70% of lawmakers are men. More than half of the Senate and House members are white, and nearly half are white men.
Sign up for The BriefThe Texas Legislature has reached an overdue milestone in its history: Enough women lawmakers have now been elected over the course of 177 years to fill all 181 seats of a single legislative session, and then some.
Though still significantly outnumbered by the more than 5,000 men who have served over the years, the addition of roughly a dozen new women lawmakers pushed the all-time tally of women elected to the state’s halls of power to 192 — up from 179 at the start of the last legislative session two years ago.
While the share of white Texans continues to shrink, the racial and ethnic composition of the Legislature continues to fall short of matching the state’s demographics. The dearth of diversity is particularly bad among Republicans, who hold a large majority of legislative seats. The GOP did make some strides in the last election. The number of Republicans of color increased from five at the start of the 2021 legislative session to 11 this year.to the Capitol means Republicans in the Senate won’t all be white this legislative session. Flores became the first Hispanic Republican state senator after winning his seat in a 2018 special election upset.
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