Texas's 66th House of Representatives district

The Texas House of Representatives' 66th district represents a portion of Collin County, including parts of Plano and Dallas. The current representative of this district is Matt Shaheen, a Republican from Plano who has represented the district since 2015.^[1]

Texas's 66th State House of Representatives district
Representative	Matt Shaheen R–Plano
Demographics	55.3% White 10.0% Black 12.5% Hispanic 20.4% Asian
Population (2020)  • Voting age	198,718 149,863

Upon being moved to Collin County in 1993, district 66 became a suburban Republican stronghold; recently however, the district has become increasingly competitive, with Democrats coming within 1 percentage point of flipping the district in both 2018 and 2020.^[2]

As a result of the 2021 redistricting, the district will represent parts of Frisco, Plano, Prosper, and Celina.^[3]

Statewide election results

Election results from recent statewide races:

District 66 vote by party in presidential elections ^[2]

Year	Democratic	Republican	Third parties
2020	53.73% 47,844	44.62% 39,729	1.65% 1,471

District 66 vote by party in Class I Senate elections ^[2]

Year	Democratic	Republican	Third parties
2018	52.51% 36,769	46.79% 32,760	0.70% 488

District 66 vote by party in Class II Senate elections ^[2]

Year	Democratic	Republican	Third parties
2020	48.89% 42,688	48.99% 42,768	2.12% 1,852

District 66 vote by party in gubernatorial elections ^[2]

Year	Democratic	Republican	Third parties
2018	44.17% 30,668	54.01% 37,504	1.82% 1,262

List of representatives

Legislature[4]	Representative	Party	Term start	Term end	Counties represented
3rd	Hamilton P. Bee	Unknown	1849	1851	Webb
4th			1851	1853
5th			1853	1855
6th			1855	1857
7th			1857	1859
8th	Bacilio Benavides		1859	1861
9th	John Staehely		1861	1862	Comal
10th	Herman Seele		1863	1866
11th	Daniel Murchison		1866	1870
12th-14th	Unknown
15th	James Monroe Swisher	Republican	1876	1879	Blanco, Travis
16th	James T.W. Loe	Greenback	1879	1881
17th	Albert W.H. Moursund	Democratic	1881	1883
18th			1883	1885	Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda, Wharton
19th	James Knox White		1885	1887
20th	Charles Irvin Battle		1887	1889
21st	Richard H.D. Sorrell II		1889	1891
22nd	Green Cameron Duncan		1891	1893
23rd	Robert Henry Rogers		1893	1893	McLennan
	Seth Phineas Mills		1893	1895
24th			1895	1897
	Cullen Thomas		1895	1897
25th	Albert Sidney Bird		1897	1899
25th	James Sluder		1897	1899
26th	Pat Morriss Neff		1899	1901
27th			1901	1903
	Henry B. Terrell		1901	1903
28th	Edward Flynn English		1903	1905	Milam, Robertson
29th	James Joseph Elliott		1905	1907
30th	Clifford Braly		1907	1909
31st	Richard Boswell		1909	1911
32nd	LeRoy Hamilton Hillyer		1911	1913
33rd	William Riley Butler		1913	1915	Bell
34th			1915	1917
35th			1917	1919
36th	Charles William Barrett		1919	1921
37th			1921	1923
38th	John H. Wessles	Republican	1923	1925	Fayette
39th	James Pavlica	Democratic	1925	1926
40th			1927	1929
41st			1929	1931
42nd	Gus Herzik		1931	1933
43rd	James Pavlica		1933	1935
44th	Gus Herzik		1935	1937
45th			1937	1939
46th	John Abness Kerr		1939	1941
47th	Rudolph B. Spacek		1941	1943
48th			1941	1943
49th			1943	1945
50th			1945	1947
51st			1949	1951
52nd			1951	1953
53rd	Max Carlton Smith		1953	1955	Blanco, Caldwell, Hays
54th			1955	1957
55th			1957	1959
56th			1959	1961
57th	Henry Arnold Fletcher		1961	1963
58th	James E. Nugent		1963	1965	Bandera, Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Menard, Real, Schleicher, Sutton
59th			1965	1967
60th	Gene Hendryx		1967	1969	Brewster, Coke, Crane, Glasscock, Irion, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Reagan, Sterling, Terrell, Upton, Ward
61st	George Baker		1969	1971
62nd			1971	1973
63rd	Phil Cates		1973	1975	Armstrong, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Floyd, Gray, Hall, Motley, Wheeler
64th			1975	1977
65th			1977	1979
66th	Foster Whaley		1979	1981
67th			1981	1983
68th	Dick Burnett		1983	1985	Coke, Mitchell, Tom Green, Sterling
69th			1985	1987
70th			1987	1989
71st	Robert Junell		1989	1991
72nd			1991	1993
73rd	Brian McCall	Republican	1993	1995	Collin (part)
74th			1995	1997
75th			1997	1999
76th			1999	2001
77th			2001	2003
78th			2003	2005
79th			2005	2007
80th			2007	2009
81st			2009	2010
	Van Taylor		2010	2011
82nd			2011	2013
83rd			2013	2015
84th	Matt Shaheen		2015	2017
85th			2017	2019
86th			2019	2021
87th			2021	2023
88th	TBD	TBD	2023	2025

Recent election results

Texas House of Representatives, District 66, 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Matt Shaheen	24,631	100.00
Total votes			24,631	100.00
	Republican hold

Texas House of Representatives, District 66, 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Matt Shaheen	40,368	57.39
	Democratic	Gnanse Nelson	27,240	38.73
	Libertarian	Shawn W. Jones	2,726	3.88
Total votes			70,334	100.00
	Republican hold

Texas House of Representatives, District 66, 2018

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Matt Shaheen	34,382	50.29
	Democratic	Sharon Hirsch	33,991	49.71
Total votes			68,373	100.00
	Republican hold

Texas House of Representatives, District 66, 2020

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Matt Shaheen	42,728	49.56
	Democratic	Sharon Hirsch	41,879	48.58
	Libertarian	Shawn W. Jones	1,600	1.86
Total votes			86,207	100.00
	Republican hold

Source^[2]