The outcome of the vote for Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 84th was never in doubt, leaving most analysis of the voters for Speaker Joe Straus (R-San Antonio) and Scott Turner (R-Frisco) to focus on the sources of division. As a first cut at that discussion, we put together a map of the votes by district. The large margin of victory enjoyed by Straus doesn't provide a lot of leverage, but the map does highlight the degree to which the North Texas/Dallas-Forth Worth ring counties continue to be a center of insurgency in the Texas GOP.
Note: this is the first use of our new mapping tool at the Texas Politics Project website. Feel free to embed, download, print, and otherwise share the graphic using the buttons in the lower right corner of the graphic.
