District Profile

Congressman Culberson has represented District 7 since being elected to office in November of 2000. The district has a long history of electing Republicans; so much of that first race was decided in the Republican primary runoff in April of 2000.

If you want to read a very interesting article on that primary campaign, Campaigns and Elections magazine published this excellent piece by Mary Clare Jalonick.

District 7 was first created as a west Houston/Harris County district in 1966 when it elected then-local businessman George Herbert Walker Bush.

After President Bush decided to run for the US Senate in 1970, then-state Representative Bill Archer won election and represented the district for thirty years, rising to be the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.

The district has changed much over the years as the population of Houston has grown and the district lines have been redrawn as part of redistricting. Congressman Culberson was elected to represent one district of precincts in 2000, another set of lines for 2002, and even the lines for the 2004 election were new. The district now includes precincts from Jersey Village in the north, Bellaire in the South, Montrose in the east, and the western lines reach Highway 6.

You can view a map of the district as drawn for the 109th Congress by clicking one of the links below.

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