Democratic
Steven Shook
Major-party general-election nominee.
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Texas District 26 election, 2026
Steven Shook vs. Brandon Gill on a newly enacted 2026 district map.
VotePredictor forecast
Brandon Gill favored
Safe R · predicted margin R+18.1
99%
chance to win
2024 presidential lean
R+24.12026 national environment
D+6.6District polls
noneForecast spread
±7.8 pointsMargin from the district's presidential lean on its 2026 lines, one fitted intercept and the national environment as a uniform swing; the win probability adds a decaying incumbency premium (Republican incumbent running). No district poll is blended in.
Republican
Brandon Gill
Incumbent representative for TX-26. Voting record, ideology and biography →
Other listed candidates
- Phil Gray · Libertarian
Polls
No district-level 2026 general-election poll is currently in VotePredictor's verified polling feed for TX-26. The forecast above is the model alone: lean, incumbency and the national environment.
Other forecasts
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