Texas Senate, District 13

Texas's 13th State Senate district
Senator	Borris Miles D–Houston
Demographics	10.5% White 41% Black 40.3% Hispanic 8.9% Asian
Population	886,226

District 13 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves portions of Fort Bend and Harris counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

The current Senator from District 13 is Borris Miles.

Top 5 biggest cities in district[]

District 13 has a population of 808,680 with 590,736 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.^[1]

	Name	County	Pop.[2][a]
1	Houston	Fort Bend/Harris	711,968
2	Missouri City	Fort Bend/Harris	36,154
3	Stafford	Fort Bend/Harris	17,104
4	Arcola	Fort Bend	1,228
5	Pearland	Fort Bend/Harris	811

District officeholders[]

Name		Party	Years	Legislature	Counties served
1			February 16, 1846 – November 5, 1849	1st 2nd	Austin, Fort Bend
2	Jesse Grimes		November 5, 1849 – November 3, 1851	3rd	Grimes, Montgomery, Walker
3			November 3, 1851 – November 7, 1853	4th	Jefferson, Liberty, Polk, Tyler
4			November 7, 1853 – November 2, 1857	5th 6th	Angelina, Nacogdoches
5			November 2, 1857 – November 4, 1861	7th 8th
6	Jefferson Weatherford		November 4, 1861 – October 17, 1864	9th 10th	Dallas, Henderson, Kaufman
7			August 6, 1866 – February 7, 1870	11th
8		Republican	February 18, 1870 – January 14, 1873	12th	Austin, Fort Bend, Wharton
9		Republican	January 14, 1873 – January 13, 1874	13th
10	Walter Moses Burton	Republican	February 20, 1874 – April 18, 1876	14th
11		Democratic	April 18, 1876 – January 11, 1881	15th 16th	Dallas, Ellis
12		Democratic	January 11, 1881 – January 9, 1883	17th
13		Democratic	January 9, 1883 – January 11, 1887	18th 19th	Bastrop, Fayette, Lee
14	Jonathan Lane	Democratic	January 11, 1887 – January 13, 1891	20th 21st
15		Democratic	January 13, 1891 – January 10, 1893
16		Democratic	January 10, 1893 – November 11, 1893		Anderson, Cherokee, Houston, Trinity
17		Democratic	January 8, 1895 – January 10, 1899
18		Democratic	January 10, 1899 – January 13, 1903
19		Democratic	January 13, 1903 – January 10, 1905		Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Houston, Trinity
20		Democratic	January 10, 1905 – August 11, 1910
21		Democratic	January 10, 1911 – January 9, 1917
22		Democratic	January 9, 1917 – October 2, 1920
23	I. D. Fairchild	Democratic	January 11, 1921 – January 13, 1925
24	Edgar E. Witt	Democratic	January 13, 1925 – March 20, 1930		Falls, Limestone, McLennan, Milam
25	William Robert Poage	Democratic	January 13, 1931 – January 12, 1937
26		Democratic	January 12, 1937 – May 21, 1938	45th
27		Democratic	July 23, 1938 – September 13, 1940	45th 46th
28		Democratic	January 14, 1941 – January 13, 1953	47th 48th 49th 50th 51st 52nd
29		Democratic	January 13, 1953 – January 8, 1963	53rd 54th 55th 56th 57th	Bell, McLennan, Milam
30		Democratic	January 8, 1963 – January 10, 1967	58th 59th
		Democratic	January 10, 1967 – January 9, 1973	60th 61st 62nd	Bell, Falls, Limestone, McLennan, Milam
31		Republican	January 9, 1973 – January 11, 1983	63rd 64th 65th 66th 67th	Harris
32	Craig A. Washington	Democratic	January 11, 1983 – January 23, 1990	68th 69th 70th 71st	Fort Bend, Harris
33	Rodney Ellis	Democratic	February 27, 1990 – January 10, 2017	71st 72nd 73rd 74th 75th 76th 77th 78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd 83rd 84th
34	Borris Miles	Democratic	January 10, 2017 – Present	85th 86th 87th

Election history[]

Election history of District 21 from 1992.^[b]

Previous elections[]

2020[]

Texas general election, 2020: Senate District 13

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Milinda Morris	48,329	19.49	+19.49
	Democratic	Borris Miles (Incumbent)	199,639	80.51	-11.99
Turnout			247,968		+28.66
	Democratic hold

2016[]

: Senate District 13^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Borris Miles	178,277	92.50	-7.50
	Libertarian	Joshua Rohn	14,447	7.50	+7.50
Turnout			192,724		+5.97
	Democratic hold

2012[]

: Senate District 13^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Rodney Ellis (Incumbent)	181,866	100.00	+21.83
Turnout			181,866		+25.64
	Democratic hold

2010[]

: Senate District 13^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Michael Mauldin	31,596	21.83	+21.83
	Democratic	Rodney Ellis (Incumbent)	113,155	78.17	-21.83
Turnout			144,751		+60.57
	Democratic hold

2006[]

Texas general election, 2006: Senate District 13^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Rodney Ellis (Incumbent)	90,148	100.00	0.00
Majority			90,148	100.00	0.00
Turnout			90,148		-16.45
	Democratic hold

2002[]

Texas general election, 2002: Senate District 13^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Rodney Ellis (Incumbent)	107,897	100.00	0.00
Majority			107,897	100.00	0.00
Turnout			107,897		+24.55
	Democratic hold

1998[]

: Senate District 13^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Rodney Ellis (Incumbent)	86,631	100.00	0.00
Majority			86,631	100.00	0.00
Turnout			86,631		-3.56
	Democratic hold

1994[]

Texas general election, 1994: Senate District 13^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Rodney Ellis (Incumbent)	89,832	100.00	+8.59
Majority			89,832	100.00	+17.18
Turnout			89,832		-39.29
	Democratic hold

1992[]

Texas general election, 1992: Senate District 13^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Rodney Ellis (Incumbent)	135,262	91.41
	Libertarian		12,713	8.59
Majority			122,549	82.82
Turnout			147,975
	Democratic hold

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