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Texas 22nd Congressional District elections have been in news lately. The year 2006 saw the replacement of House Majority leader Tom DeLay, a republican representing the district for 20 years. Incumbent former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) won the primary and then retired, leaving his seat vacant. He also dropped out of the re-election race. These events followed a number of corruption charges that made DeLay the focus of a September 28, 2005, indictment by a grand jury. Under Texas law, however, the Republican Party could not legally name another candidate for the 2006 election. DeLay announced on August 8, 2006 that he would withdraw, in order to allow the party to organize a campaign for a write-in candidate. The result was that no Republican was listed on the ballot for the two-year term that began in January, 2007.The Texas Republican Party supported Houston City Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs as their write-in candidate. Sekula-Gibbs won the special election, and was sworn in on November 13, 2006. She represented the district for the remaining few weeks of the 109th United States Congress. Lampson won the general election, and was sworn in on January 4, 2007.
The Texas 22nd Congressional District covers a south-central portion of the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area. It includes the cities of Rosenberg and La Marque as well as portions of Missouri City and Pearland, in Fort Bend, Harris, Galveston, and Brazoria counties. The district is dominated by Houston's heavily Republican western and southern suburbs, stretching from Sugar Land and Missouri City in the west and traveling eastward to portions of Pearland and Pasadena, all the way to the NASA Johnson Space Center, Clear Lake City, and Ellington Field. It takes in several wealthy and conservative suburbs south of Houston, including Sugar Land, Pasadena, Pearland, and the Clear Lake area of Houston. Texas 22nd Congressional District also includes the NASA Johnson Space Center and Ellington Field. Along with Sekula-Gibbs, the other Republicans who are running for the seat including former Sugar Land mayor Dean Hrbacek , former Pasadena mayor John Manlove, former John Cornyn Chief of Staff Pete Olson, Family District Judge Jim Squier, State Representative Bob Talton, and NASA contractor Ryan Rowley.
