HOUSTON – Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls has been sent to the House of Representatives after a win in District 22. A Texas sheriff who drew national attention in 2017 over threatening to prosecute a driver with an anti-Trump sticker on their truck has won a congressional seat in Houston. Republican Troy Nehls' victory Tuesday thwarted heavy spending by Democrats to flip the district that stretches south and west of Houston into booming suburbs, which is among the most racially and ethnically diverse in the nation. WATCH: Nehls gives victory speech after win:RELATED READ: Recapping the primary race in District 22Nehls defeated Democrat Sri Preston Kulkarni, who also ran for the seat in 2018. You can view the results below:U.S. Representative, District 22 View All CandidatesYou can see more election results here.

You’ve seen the campaign ads, mudslinging and muckraking on both sides in the District 22 congressional race. Ad against NehlsKPRC 2 Investigates examined two key sections in each campaign ad -- both produced by outside groups, not the campaigns themselves. We spoke with Adams and political strategist Keir Murray about the campaign ads circulating in the District 22 congressional race. Interactive mapLearn more about the makeup of Congressional District 22 with this information from the U.S. Census Bureau. A look at the primary season in District 22 leading up to the November 2020 election.

Texas' large population growth over the last decade is driving some of the change in voting patterns. “We have see the suburban vote become very important.”According to data from the Texas Secretary of State, from 2008 to 2018, Texas went “red” in every senate and presidential election. But in the 2018 senate race, republican incumbent Ted Cruz’s winning margin over his democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke was just three percentage points. During the last presidential and senate elections, Harris and Fort Bend voted Democrat. Two of the largest school districts, Fort bend and Katy, each report more than 90 languages are represented in their schools.

South Asian Americans have emerged as an influential voting bloc in congressional districts across the state. The group seeks to educate candidates in districts where there are a substantial number of South Asian American voters. The community is not monolithic, Shah said; a large share of South Asian Americans in Texas are Republicans, and many are pro-Trump. He and Shah are working to mobilize South Asian Americans of all political backgrounds in Central Texas this election cycle. The South Asian American community in her hometown leans heavily Republican, she said.

It is the second ad released by Wall in recent weeks questioning Nehl’s commitment to battling human trafficking. Both ads are partially based on a pair of Houston Chronicle articles in recent years highlighting Nehls' reluctance to label human trafficking as a widespread problem in Fort Bend County. For Wall, the runoff represents an opportunity to avenge her embarrassing 2018 loss in the GOP primary for the nearby 2nd Congressional District. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking. “I don’t have money to go on TV, I’m running a frugal grassroots campaign,” Nehls wrote Monday on Facebook.

HOUSTON – Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls says an unidentified postal worker threw away a bundle of his campaign mailers fliers Friday. Nehls, who is up against fellow Republican Kathaleen Wall in the July primary runoff election, says he learned of the incident from a business owner who called him. The business owner showed Nehls the video footage in which a postal worker can be seen throwing an object in the dumpster behind a building near FM 359. The owner said when he went to go retrieve what was thrown away, he found Nehls’ reelection campaign fliers. We have the federal government, the postal service, throwing away political mailers.

As the new coronavirus disrupts lives worldwide, a Houston-area congressional candidate has shifted her focus to targeting the country where the outbreak began: China. In a TV ad that started airing Thursday, Republican Kathaleen Wall embraces President Donald Trump's description of the virus as the "Chinese virus," saying the country "poisoned our people" and must pay for it. At the same time, the ad has drawn attention to another side of campaigning in the age of the coronavirus. As candidates across Texas look to help their communities fight the outbreak, Wall has been distributing campaign-branded hand sanitizer — and it bears the label "Made in China." As the virus began spreading in the United States last month, Trump started referring to it as the "Chinese virus," raising concerns that such language fuels xenophobia against Asian-Americans.