Texas's 65th House of Representatives district

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Texas's 65th House of Representatives district - Wikipedia

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Texas's 65th State
House of Representatives
district

Representative

Kronda Thimesch
R–Carrollton

Demographics

51.6% White
13.3% Black
19.0% Hispanic
14.4% Asian

Population (2020)
• Voting age

202,249
154,144

District 65 is a district of the Texas House of Representatives that serves a portion of Denton County.

The current representative is Mitch Little who was elected in 2024. He defeated Kronda Thimesch, who was elected in 2022 in a primary election. Previous incumbent Democrat Michelle Beckley, while joining a caucus of Texas House Democrats in Washington DC to break quorum,^[1] announced she would instead challenge US Representative Beth Van Duyne in 2022.^[2]

District description

The district is located wholly within Denton County, representing southern portions of the county. The district includes northeastern parts of Lewisville, northern half of Carrollton, southern half of The Colony, all of Bartonville, Northlake, Justin, and Double Oak, as well as portions of Plano, Highland Village, Roanoke and small portions of Dallas and Fort Worth that extend into Denton County.^[3]

History of district

From 1920 to 1951, District 65 was a floterial district covering Burleson, Lee and Milam counties.

From 2012 to 2022, the district represented portions of southern Denton County, primarily parts of Lewisville and Carrollton.^[3]

Texas House District 65 vote by party in recent elections^[4]
Year	Democratic	Republican	Other
2022	40.21% 28,878	59.79% 42,934	-
2020	51.51% 40,529	48.49% 38,156	-
2018	51.16% 29,972	48.84% 28,614	-
2016	43.74% 26,759	56.26% 34,418	-
2014	35.69% 10,440	64.31% 18,812	-
2012	38.58% 20,481	59.12% 31,386	2.31% 1,224

Representatives^[5]

Leg.	Representative	Party	Term start	Term end	Counties represented
5th	Benjamin Franklin Neal	Unknown	December 27, 1853	November 5, 1855	Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio
6th	Jerome B. McCown		November 5, 1855	November 2, 1857
7th	Somers Kinney		November 5, 1857	November 7, 1859
8th	Henry Kinney		November 7, 1859	February 9, 1861
8th	Alfred Marmaduke Hobby		March 19, 1861	November 4, 1861
9th	Washington Edmund Goodrich		November 4, 1861	November 2, 1863	Guadalupe
10th	Henry Maney		November 6, 1863	August 6, 1866
11th	Middleton S. Dunn		August 6, 1866	February 7, 1870
15th	John T. Haynes	Republican	April 18, 1876	January 14, 1879	Travis
16th	Felix Ezell Smith	Democratic	January 14, 1879	January 11, 1881
17th	Fred Carleton		January 11, 1881	January 9, 1883
18th	Henry Jacob Labatt		January 9, 1883	January 13, 1885	Galveston
19th	Lorenzo Clarke Fisher		January 13, 1885	January 11, 1887
20th	Walter Gresham		January 11, 1887	January 8, 1889
21st	Walter Gresham		January 8, 1889	January 13, 1891
22nd	Miles Crowley		January 13, 1891	January 10, 1893
23rd	Spencer Young		January 10, 1893	January 8, 1895	Bell
23rd	Shelby N. Strange		January 10, 1893	January 8, 1895
24th	Shelby N. Strange		January 8, 1895	January 12, 1897
24th	Daniel Edwin Patterson		January 8, 1895	January 12, 1897
25th	Daniel Edwin Patterson		January 12, 1897	January 10, 1899
25th	L. M. Benson		January 12, 1897	January 10, 1899
26th	Huling Parker Robertson		January 10, 1899	January 8, 1901
26th	William Tecumseh Shannon		January 10, 1899	January 8, 1901
27th	William Tecumseh Shannon		January 8, 1901	January 13, 1903
27th	William Attress Craddock		January 8, 1901	January 13, 1903
28th	John Emery Crawford		January 13, 1903	September 12, 1903	Robertson
29th	William T. Bartholomew		January 10, 1905	January 8, 1907
30th	Jacob Leonard Goodman		January 8, 1907	January 12, 1909
31st	Jacob Leonard Goodman		January 12, 1909	January 10, 1911
32nd	Daniel F. Parker		January 10, 1911	January 14, 1913
33rd	Randolph Roy Tyson		January 14, 1913	January 12, 1915	Milam
34th	Campbell McCleary Beard		January 12, 1915	January 9, 1917
35th			January 9, 1917	January 14, 1919
36th			January 14, 1919	January 11, 1921
37th	Isaac W. "Ike" Looney		January 11, 1921	January 9, 1923
38th	Oscar Dudley Baker		January 9, 1923	January 13, 1925	Burleson, Lee, Milam
39th	Ed R. Sinks		January 13, 1925	January 11, 1927
40th			January 11, 1927	January 8, 1929
41st			January 8, 1929	January 13, 1931
42nd	James Joseph Elliott		January 13, 1931	January 10, 1933
43rd	Jesse James		January 10, 1933	January 8, 1935
44th			January 8, 1935	January 12, 1937
45th			January 12, 1937	September 1, 1937
45th	Henry Grady "Bud" Lehman		September 27, 1937	January 10, 1939
46th			January 10, 1939	January 14, 1941
47th			January 14, 1941	January 12, 1943
48th			January 12, 1943	January 9, 1945
49th			January 9, 1945	January 14, 1947
50th			January 14, 1947	January 11, 1949
51st			January 11, 1949	January 9, 1951
52nd			January 9, 1951	January 13, 1953
53rd	Jim Pearce Johnson (65-1), Obie E. Jones (65-2) Charles Lloyd Sandahl Jr. (65-3)		January 13, 1953	January 11, 1955	Travis
54th			January 11, 1955	January 8, 1957
55th	Wilson Farrell Foreman (65-1), Obie E. Jones (65-2), Charles Lloyd Sandahl Jr. (65-3)		January 8, 1957	January 13, 1959
56th			January 13, 1959	January 10, 1961
57th			January 10, 1961	January 8, 1963
58th	James Terrell "Terry" Townsend		January 8, 1963	January 12, 1965	Burnet Gillespie, Lampasas, Llano, McCulloch, Mills, San Saba
59th	James Terrell "Terry" Townsend		January 12, 1965	January 10, 1967
60th	Hilary Brumley Doran Jr.		January 10, 1967	January 14, 1969	Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton, Val Verde
61st			January 14, 1969	January 12, 1971
62nd			January 12, 1971	January 9, 1973
63rd	H. Bryan Poff Jr.		January 9, 1973	January 14, 1975	Carson, Potter, Randall
64th	Bob Simpson		January 14, 1975	January 11, 1977
65th			January 11, 1977	January 9, 1979
66th			January 9, 1979	January 13, 1981
67th			January 13, 1981	January 11, 1983
68th	Jim Parker		January 11, 1983	January 8, 1985	Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, McCulloch, Runnels
69th			January 8, 1985	January 13, 1987
70th			January 13, 1987	January 10, 1989
71st			January 10, 1989	January 8, 1991
72nd			January 8, 1991	January 15, 1991
72nd	Robert Ray "Bob" Turner		March 6, 1991	January 12, 1993
73rd	Ben M. Campbell	Republican	January 12, 1993	January 10, 1995	Denton
74th	Burt Solomons		January 10, 1995	January 14, 1997
75th			January 14, 1997	January 12, 1999
76th			January 12, 1991	January 9, 2001
77th			January 9, 2001	January 14, 2003
78th			January 14, 2003	January 11, 2005
79th			January 11, 2005	January 9, 2007
80th			January 9, 2007	January 13, 2009
81st			January 13, 2009	January 11, 2011
82nd			January 11, 2011	January 8, 2013
83rd	Ron Simmons		January 8, 2013	January 13, 2015
84th			January 13, 2015	January 10, 2017
85th			January 10, 2017	January 8, 2019
86th	Michelle Beckley	Democratic	January 8, 2019	January 12, 2021
87th	Michelle Beckley	Democratic	January 12, 2021	2023
88th	Kronda Thimesch	Republican	2023	2025
89th	Mitch Little	Republican	2025	Incumbent