Election officials in Texas met on Tuesday evening to vote for former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner to fill the vacant seat left by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who died on July 19 of pancreatic cancer.
Turner defeated five other candidates for the slot and will likely be elected in November as the 18th district skews Democrat. His primary competition came from former Houston city council member Amanda Edwards, who had unsuccessfully opposed Jackson Lee earlier this year in Texas’s primary election.
