- Will the Republican Party win the TX-09 House seat?82¢82%
- Will the Democratic Party win the TX-09 House seat?17¢17%
Redistricting in 2025 shifted Texas’s 9th Congressional District from a long-held Democratic seat into a Republican-leaning constituency covering eastern Harris County and Liberty County, where Donald Trump carried the area by roughly 20 points in 2024. A University of Houston poll conducted October 3–7 showed Republican nominee Alex Mealer leading Democrat Leticia Gutierrez 48% to 42% among likely voters, with 10% undecided. Mealer, an Army veteran and oil-and-gas executive who won the GOP nomination in a May runoff, holds a substantial fundraising edge exceeding $2.7 million and secured an endorsement from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on October 22. Early voting began October 19 ahead of the November 3 general election, with Mealer drawing stronger support from independents and older voters while Gutierrez performs better among younger and minority blocs.
Rules
This market will resolve according to the party of the candidate who wins the TX-09 congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections. The midterm elections will take place on November 3, 2026. A candidate's party will be determined by their ballot-listed or otherwise identifiable affiliation with that party at the time all of the 2026 House elections are conclusively called by this market's resolution sources. A candidate without a ballot-listed affiliation to either the Democrat or Republican parties will be considered a member of one of these parties based on the party with which they most recently expressed their intent to caucus at the time all of the House elections are conclusively called by this market's resolution sources. This market will resolve based on the result of the election as indicated by a consensus of credible reporting. If there is ambiguity, this market will resolve based solely on the official results as reported by the United States government, specifically the Federal Election Commission (https://www.fec.gov/).