Texas's 27th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives covers the coastal bend of Texas's Gulf Coast consisting of Corpus Christi and Victoria up to Bastrop County near Austin. Its current representative is Republican Michael Cloud. Cloud was elected to the district in a special election on June 30, 2018, to replace former Republican representative Blake Farenthold, who had resigned on April 6.
The 27th district was created as a result of the redistricting cycle after the 1980 census.
The district is slightly less than 50% Hispanic, down from the 70% Hispanic population in the 2002âÂÂ2010 cycles when the district reached from Corpus Christi to Brownsville.
In August 2017, a panel of federal judges ruled that the 27th district is unconstitutional, arguing that it displaces a Hispanic-opportunity district. However, the United States Supreme Court later reversed the ruling, pronouncing the district constitutional in Abbott v. Perez.
For the 118th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2020 census), the district contains all or portions of the following counties and communities:
Aransas County (6)
Bastrop County (7)
Bee County (9)
Caldwell County (7)
Calhoun County (6)
DeWitt County (4)
Goliad County (1)
Gonzales County (4)
Jackson County (5)
Lavaca County (4)
Nueces County (18)
Refugio County (5)
San Patricio County (26)
Victoria County (5)