# Texas's 16th Senate district

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**District 16** of the **[Texas Senate](/source/Texas_Senate)** is a senatorial district that currently serves a portion of [Dallas](/source/Dallas_County,_Texas) county in the [U.S.](/source/United_States) state of [Texas](/source/Texas).[1]

The current senator from District 16 is [Nathan M. Johnson](/source/Nathan_M._Johnson).

## Biggest cities in the district

District 16 has a population of 816,670 with 614,614 that is at voting age as of the [2010 census](/source/2010_United_States_Census).[2]

Name County Pop.[3][a] 1 Dallas Dallas 350,201 2 Garland 134,462 3 Irving 121,029 4 Carrollton 49,352 5 Rowlett 49,188

## Election history

Election history of District 25 from 1992.[b]

## District officeholders

Legislature Senator, District 16 Counties in District 1 Robert McAlpin Williamson Milam, Washington. 2 3 Edward Burleson Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Travis. 4 William S. Day Austin, Fort Bend, Washington. 5 Henry C. Pedigo Jefferson, Liberty, Orange, Polk, Trinity, Tyler. 6 7 8 Enoch S. Pitts 9 A. N. Jordan Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris. 10 11 Abram Morris Gentry 12 Matthew Gaines Washington. 13 14 Seth Shepard T. G. Davidson Burleson, Washington. 15 Tillman Smith James R. Burnett Grimes, Madison, Trinity, Walker. 16 James R. Burnett John T. Buchanan 17 John T. Buchanan James G. McDonald 18 Barnett Gibbs Dallas, Kaufman, Rockwall. 19 J. O. Terrell 20 21 Robert S. Kimbrough 22 23 James H. Shelburne Austin, Fort Bend, Harris, Waller. 24 25 Waller T. Burns 26 27 Abner G. Lipscomb 28 Fort Bend, Harris, Waller. 29 George B. Griggs 30 31 Francis Charles Hume, Jr. 32 33 Louis H. Bailey 34 35 Rienzi Melville Johnston 36 Rienzi Melville Johnston Lynch Davidson 37 Charles A. Murphy 38 39 Harris. 40 James W. Hall Walter Frank Woodul 41 Walter Frank Woodul 42 43 44 Weaver Moore 45 46 47 48 49 50 W. Lacy Stewart Maribelle Stewart 51 J. Searcy Bracewell, Jr. 52 53 Carlos C. Ashley, Sr. Bandera, Brown, Burnet, Concho, Gillespie, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Lampasas, Llano, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, Mills, Real, San Saba, Uvalde, Zavala. 54 55 56 Louis Crump 57 58 59 60 Jim Wade Portion of Dallas. 61 Mike McKool 62 63 Bill Braecklein 64 65 66 67 John N. Leedom 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 John N. Leedom John J. Carona Portions of Dallas, Rockwall. 75 John J. Carona 76 77 78 Portion of Dallas. 79 80 81 82 83 84 Don Huffines 85 86 Nathan M. Johnson 87 88 89

## Notes

1. Population is based on the number of people in the district in that city, not the overall population of that city

1. Uncontested primary elections are not shown.

## References

1. ["State Senate Districts PLANS2168"](https://wtaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/XGRmapSenateCourtesyTrentAshby.pdf). *WTAW*. Retrieved 25 July 2024.

1. ["District Population Analysis with County Subtotals"](https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/fyiwebdocs/PDF/senate/dist16/r4.pdf). The Texas State Senate. Retrieved 2020-06-24.

1. ["Cities and Census Designated Places (CDPs) by District"](https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/fyiwebdocs/PDF/senate/dist16/r6.pdf). The Texas State Senate. Retrieved 2020-06-24.

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