# How one Republican won a redrawn Texas district despite a blue wave

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- Al Jazeera, 2026-11-06 05:03 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/6/why-one-republican-won-a-redrawn-texas-district-despite-blue-tsunami?traffic_source=rss

> As Republicans suffered setbacks in Texas’s midterms, Jace Yarbrough defeated Dan Barrios in the redrawn 32nd congressional district near Dallas, becoming the only Republican this year to flip a Texas House seat. An analyst credited Yarbrough’s focus on economic concerns and the district’s Republican-leaning boundaries; he won narrowly, 51.5% to 48.5%.

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