Pat Fallon

Twelve U.S. House seats covering the Dallas-Fort Worth area are on the Nov. 3 midterm ballot, with early voting running Oct. 19-30. Most races feature Republican incumbents—Keith Self, Pat Fallon, Lance Gooden, Jake Ellzey, Craig Goldman, Ronny Jackson, Beth Van Duyne and Roger Williams—facing Democratic challengers, plus a Libertarian in District 26. Three open seats stand out: District 30, vacated by Jasmine Crockett after her Senate run; and Districts 32 and 33, left open by Julie Johnson and Marc Veasey, respectively, after mid-decade redistricting reshaped them from Democratic-leaning to Republican-favored territory. In District 33, Colin Allred faces Patrick David Gillespie. Results are expected after 7 p.m. on Election Day.

First-term Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Flower Mound, is seeking to become the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, setting up a contest with fellow Texan Rep. Pat Fallon of Sherman, who announced his own bid in April. Current chair James Comer of Kentucky is term-limited under GOP rules and will step down when the new Congress convenes in January.

Gill, the youngest Republican in the House, has built a large following through viral clips of combative committee questioning, including exchanges with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and a former American Bar Association president. Comer named him chair of a committee task force on constitutional rights in May. Fallon, a fourth-term lawmaker, points to six years of oversight work on the committee as his case for the role.

The Oversight Committee is the House's chief investigative panel. Whether the winner becomes chair or ranking member depends on which party controls the House after the November midterms.