James Talarico

State Representative, District 050

TX House · Democrat

James Dell Talarico ( TAL-ə-REE-koh, born May 17, 1989) is an American politician, Presbyterian seminarian, and educator serving since 2018 as a member of the Texas House of Representatives. He is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Texas. Born in Round Rock, Texas, Talarico graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 2011, and from Harvard University with a Master of Education degree in education policy in 2016. Before entering politics, Talarico was a middle school English teacher and an executive director for an education nonprofit. He is serving his fourth term in the Texas House of Representatives, having first been elected in 2018. While serving in the Texas House, Talarico started to pursue a Master of Divinity at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In 2025, he announced his candidacy for the United States Senate in 2026. He defeated U.S. representative Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary and will face the Republican nominee, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, in the general election.

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Voting Summary

Votes recorded: 182
Ballots cast: 161
Participation: 88.5%
Yea / Nay: 117 / 44

Yea117

Nay44

Absent21

Abstain0

182 total ballots recorded.

Participation counts yea and nay ballots votes where a position was taken as a share of all roll calls on file.

Voting Record

182 votes

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
Relating to public education and public school finance.	house	4370	Yea
Relating to establishing the Applied Sciences Pathway program.	house	4484	Yea
Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools.	house	4429	Yea
Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools.	house	4428	Yea
Relating to public education and public school finance.	house	4369	Yea
Relating to public education and public school finance.

Bill title and chamber are the only bill details held locally for these votes. Bill number, status, summary and sponsor are not part of this dataset see Bills for the fuller bill record. “Roll call” is the upstream roll-call identifier, not a date; no vote date is recorded in this dataset.