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U.S. House - TX-29 · Texas · 2026

General election · 4 on file, ballot not yet verified · Incumbent running

VecD 100 · AnchoredTenD >99%Att35

Result

Called

Sylvia Garcia (D) won this race with 79.9% of the vote, 59.9 points ahead.

  • Sylvia GarciaDemocraticIncumbentWinner79.9%133,989 votes
  • Martha FierroRepublican20.1%33,619 votes
Margin
100,370 votes (59.9 points)
Reporting
100% of the count in
Called
First seen here, Nov 4, 9:50 AM ET
Last updated
Nov 7, 8:53 AM ET

Called it: hit Our locked call before polls closed was D; the winner is D. See every locked call

Unofficial until the state certifies the result.

Before the election

Polls, ratings and the Vugol Tensor below were published before votes were counted. They are not results.

CandidatesU.S. House - TX-29 · Texas
Sylvia R Garcia
DIncumbent
DEM
Martha Fierro
R
REP
No verified poll yet · Vugol Vector: D Anchored

Model rating Leans Democratic (Anchored) on the Vugol Vector model, a snapshot of today, not a probability.

No polls on file for this race. Model inputs: 4 of 7, updated yesterday. Page updated 2026-11-15. Sources · What is validated

ExperimentalNews attention 35/100, how much coverage the race gets, not who is winning. Updated 7 days ago. How it works

On the Texas ballot, Nov 3, 2026 U.S. Representative, District 29, 2 names on the official list. Election Day has passed; see the ballot as it was.Voting in Texas? Check your registration, get a mail ballot, find your polling place.

Candidates on file, ballot not yet verified (4)

From FEC filings and public records. Filing with the FEC does not put someone on the ballot; we are checking each state’s certified candidate list and will mark who is on the November ballot.

Latest verified field polling

Verified = published by the pollster that conducted it, with a public source we link to.

none yet

No verified poll has been published for this race. The Vugol Vector call from our model is below, it is not a poll.

Polling average

no polls yet

No polls on file for this race yet. See latest polls across every race.

Campaign money (FEC)

Candidate committee totals for the cycle from the Federal Election Commission (public domain), as of each committee's latest report.

CandidateRaisedSpentCash on handThrough
Sylvia R Garcia Democratic$1,201,322$1,337,312$235,7642026-10-14
Jarvis Johnson Democratic$142,143$47,713$71,0092026-02-11
Robert Slater Democratic$33,892$17,587$16,3052026-09-30

Ad spending (FEC)

What each campaign reported paying for ads, and what outside groups (super PACs, PACs and parties) reported spending for and against each candidate. Federal Election Commission filings, public domain.

CandidateCampaign's own adsOutside groups forOutside groups against
Sylvia R Garcia Democratic$344K+ $157K mail · through 2026-06-30$553K$290K ads · 4 groupsnone reported
Robert Slater Democratic$2,116+ $1,234 mail · through 2026-02-10none reportednone reported
Jarvis Johnson Democratic$0+ $704 mail · through 2026-02-11none reportednone reported

Biggest outside spenders

  • Sylvia R Garcia. For: BOLD America $270K, CHC BOLD PAC $204K, Texas Organizing Project PAC $59K

Outside groups: 24- and 48-hour independent expenditure reports for the 2026 primary and general, through 2026-10-22, each expenditure counted once after amendments; "ads" is TV, radio, digital and other media, and the rest is mail, phones, canvassing and similar. Campaign's own ads: TV, radio, digital, other media and ad production in the campaign committee's itemized payments, as the campaign described them, from the reports the FEC has processed (latest through 2026-06-30); newer reports appear as the FEC processes them. These are amounts committees reported paying, not airtime tracked by ad-monitoring firms, so very recent buys and future reservations may not show yet. Parser fec-ad-spend-1.0.0.

Key dates

Official federal election dates for this state from the FEC. Registration deadlines and early voting: see the state election office.

  • 2026-03-03, Primary election: U.S. House
  • 2026-04-11, Convention: U.S. House, LIB
  • 2026-05-26, Runoff: U.S. House
  • 2026-11-03, General election: U.S. House

Source: FEC election dates (public domain).

Primary and hypothetical polls (1)

Kept on file, never averaged into this race. Polls listed on the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), each linked to that article revision and, where we know it, to the pollster's own site.

  • Democratic primary · University of Houston · 2026-02-03–2026-02-10 · n=500 · Sylvia Garcia (D) 46%,Jarvis Johnson (D) 27%,Robert Slater (D) 2% · release

In the news

Lab

Vugol Vector & Vugol Attention

Vugol Attention 35 Vugol Vector D · Anchored

Vugol Me model signals, not polls. Verified polling is in the Polls section above.

Vugol Me Attention (attention intensity)

Vugol Attention intensity index 0–100 · not a poll · normalized nightly

attention-1.0.0
35OUT OF 100Low attention
Vugol Attention percentile45th
7-day momentum6 / 100
Source breadth50% of tracked

Vugol Vector

Proprietary ensemble model · a call, not a probability · model confidence: medium

vector-1.1.0
Democratic leanOpen centerRepublican lean
AnchoredHeldTiltingOpenTiltingHeldAnchored
Completeness4 of 7 inputs (national, prior, incumbent, money) · missing: pres, pulse, poll
Evidenceno audit release · fundamentals only
Freshnessoldest input 2026-11-08 (7 days ago)

The breakdown of this call (the model's multi-signal input matrix, input by input) is on Ultra Pro plans.

Vugol Tensor

How far this call can miss · a range, not a prediction · no verified poll here, so the range is wider and untested

tensor-1.0.0

Centre D+27.2. Four times in five the result lands between D+36.6 and D+17.8; nine in ten between D+39.3 and D+15.1. Chance the Democrat finishes ahead: >99%.

Polls have missed by about four points in a typical race and they miss together. How Tensor works →

Desk data: daily telemetry

Per-source daily series, CSV export and the Vugol Vector breakdown · paid plans

Sources

Vugol Vector band: D · Anchored. Have a say in the Vugol race poll; it is open to signed-in voters and never feeds these numbers.

The four Vugol signals, side by side

They answer different questions and are kept apart. Full method: Methodology.

Vugol Vector
Our call for every race if today’s polls hold. A snapshot, not a win probability or a vote share.
Vugol Tensor
How sure we are: ranges and chamber-control odds around the Vector, built from past polling error. An experiment about uncertainty, not a better guess.
Vugol Attention
How much news and online noise a race gets, 0 to 100. It measures noise, not support: a high score says nothing about who is ahead.
Vugol Pulse
Our daily thumbs-up or thumbs-down question for readers. Anyone can answer, so it describes our readers, not the public. It is not a vote and never enters a poll average or any other signal.