Amanda Edwards

American politician (born 1982)

U.S. House — TX-18DemocraticRunning nowVugol ID VM-8S7-B53Q FEC H4TX18138

Running for U.S. House, TX-18, 2026

Link: vugol.me/p/amanda-edwards

Roster source: FEC filing (2026-08-26)

Headshot · commons.wikimedia.org

Amanda Edwards — Photo — Photo · 2C2K Photography from Houston, TX, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Amanda Edwards — Illustration · Vugol.me — Illustration · Vugol.me
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Scott Christopher Gillett, Chris Gillett Studios · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA

Races

2026 · U.S. House, TX-18 · General · Democratic · on the ballot
2026 · State House / Assembly, TX District U_S_18 · Primary · Democratic · result not on file · 7,339 votes (7.7%) · source
2024 · U.S. House, TX-18 · Primary · Democratic · result not on file · source
2020 · U.S. Senate, TX · Primary · Democratic · lost · 189,624 votes (10.1%) · source

Background

Amanda Kay Edwards is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Houston City Council from 2016 to 2020.

She was a candidate for the 2020 United States Senate election in Texas in the Democratic primary and briefly ran in the 2023 Houston mayoral election before making a pivot to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2024. She was a candidate for the U.S. House in the 2025–26 special election to fill in the vacancy left by Sylvester Turner's death, ultimately losing the runoff to Christian Menefee.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-26 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Edwards

Campaign finance

$1,895,212total raised (2026 cycle)

$1,893,098total spent (2026 cycle)

$3,327cash on hand (2026 cycle)

As of 2026-02-28 · Source: FEC

Website and social

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Sources

Portrait — Scott Christopher Gillett, Chris Gillett Studios · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons (file page)
Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-26 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Edwards
Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85741126
Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H4TX18138/
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amanda_Edwards_at_TSUHomecomingParade101219-52_(48951296662).jpg
photo_gallery — https://www.edwardsforhouston.com/home
photo_gallery — https://www.edwardsforhouston.com/home
photo_gallery — https://www.edwardsforhouston.com/home
photo_headshot — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amanda_Edwards_at_TSUHomecomingParade101219-52_(48951296662)_(1).jpg
photo_gallery — https://www.edwardsforhouston.com/home

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