Texas's 47th House of Representatives district explained

State:	Texas
District:	47
Chamber:	House of Representatives
Representative:	Vikki Goodwin
Party:	Democratic
Residence:	Austin
Percent White:	62.1
Percent Black:	4.0
Percent Hispanic:	15.9
Percent Asian:	16.1
Percent Other Race:	8.4
Population:	203,643
Population Year:	2020
Voting Age:	153,837

The Texas House of Representatives 47th district that represents west and south Travis County. The current representative of this district is Vikki Goodwin, a Democrat from Shady Hollow.^{[1] [2]}

The district is home to many in Austin.

List of representatives

Leg.^[3]	Representative	Party	Term start	Term end	Counties represented
4th	Amasa Turner	Unknown	November 3, 1851	November 7, 1853	Gonzales, Lavaca
5th			November 7, 1853	November 5, 1855	Gonzales, DeWitt
	James Shaw		November 7, 1853	November 5, 1855	Brazos, Burleson
6th			November 5, 1855	November 2, 1857
7th	Elijah James Chance		November 2, 1857	November 7, 1859
8th	Titus Howard Mundine		November 7, 1859	November 4, 1861
9th	Constantine W. Buckley		November 4, 1861	November 2, 1863	Fort Bend, Matagorda, Wharton
10th			November 2, 1863	December 19, 1865
11th	James D. Whitten		August 8, 1866	February 7, 1870
15th	Edward Chambers	Democratic	April 18, 1876	January 14, 1879	Collin
16th	W.W. Merritt	January 14, 1879	January 11, 1881
		January 11, 1881	January 9, 1883
18th	Joseph Rushing	January 9, 1883	January 13, 1885	Kaufman, Texas
19th	James S. Woods	January 13, 1885	January 11, 1887
20th	Sanctus Waskom	January 11, 1887	January 8, 1889
21st	James Eldrage Dillard	January 8, 1889	January 13, 1891
22nd	Marshall Gossett	January 10, 1893	January 13, 1891
23rd	Nathan E. Dever	January 10, 1893	January 8, 1895	Washington County, Texas
24th	Dewitt Clinton Giddings Jr.	January 8, 1895	January 12, 1897
25th	Ben S. Rogers	January 12, 1897	January 10, 1899
26th		January 10, 1899	January 8, 1901
27th	Samuel H. Goodlett	January 8, 1901	January 13, 1903
28th	John Mortimer Johnson	January 13, 1903	January 10, 1905	Lee, Washington
29th	William David "Davie" Crockett	January 10, 1905	January 8, 1907
30th	Henry Frank Schlosshan	January 8, 1907	January 12, 1909
31st	James P. Buchanan	January 12, 1909	January 10, 1911
32nd		January 10, 1911	January 14, 1913
33rd	Thomas Garland Collins	January 14, 1913	January 12, 1915	Dallas, Kaufman
34th	James A. Florer	January 12, 1915	January 9, 1917
35th		January 9, 1917	February 26, 1918
36th	John Davis	January 14, 1919	January 11, 1921
37th		January 11, 1921	October 24, 1921
38th	Robert Lee Bob Cable	January 9, 1923	January 13, 1925	Montague County, Texas
39th	Thomas Luther Walker	January 13, 1925	January 11, 1927
40th		January 11, 1927	January 8, 1929
41st	John Paul Finn	January 8, 1929	January 13, 1931
42nd		January 13, 1931	January 10, 1933
43rd	Franklin A. Wood	January 10, 1933	January 8, 1935
44th		January 8, 1935	January 12, 1937
45th	Marvin Flynt London	January 12, 1937	January 10, 1939
46th		January 10, 1939	September 27, 1939
	Earl Clinton Fitts	November 28, 1939	January 14, 1941
47th	Paul Edwin Donald	January 14, 1941	January 12, 1943
48th		January 12, 1943	January 9, 1945
49th	Elmer Lee Covey	January 9, 1945	January 14, 1947
50th	Wayne Warren Wagonseller	January 14, 1947	January 11, 1949
51st		January 11, 1949	January 9, 1951
52nd	Anthony Paul Fenoglio	January 9, 1951	January 13, 1953
53rd	Fredrick A. Niemann	January 13, 1953	January 11, 1955	Gonzales, Lavaca
54th		January 11, 1955	January 8, 1957
55th	Stanley E. Boysen	January 8, 1957	January 13, 1959
56th		January 13, 1959	January 10, 1961
57th		January 10, 1961	January 8, 1963
58th		January 8, 1963	January 12, 1965	DeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca
59th	Joseph Terry Newman, Sr.	January 12, 1965	January 10, 1967
63rd	Jon Paul Newton	January 9, 1973	January 14, 1975	Atascosa, Bee, Dimmit, La Salle Live Oak, McMullen, Wilson
64th		January 14, 1975	January 11, 1977
65th	Thomas Jefferson Martin, Jr.	January 11, 1977	January 9, 1979
66th		January 9, 1979	January 13, 1981
67th	Jay Harvey Reynolds		Republican		January 13, 1981	January 11, 1983
68th	Robert Barton, Jr.		Democratic	January 11, 1983	January 8, 1985
69th	Margaret Anne Cooper	Republican	January 8, 1985	January 13, 1987
70th		January 13, 1987	January 10, 1989
71st	Elizabeth Ann Linebarger	Democratic	January 10, 1989	January 8, 1991
72nd		January 8, 1991	January 12, 1993
73rd	Susan Combs	Republican	January 12, 1993	January 10, 1995	Travis
74th		January 10, 1995	January 26, 1996
	Patty Keel	June 14, 1996	January 14, 1997
75th	Terry Keel	January 14, 1997	January 12, 1999
76th		January 12, 1999	January 9, 2001
77th		January 9, 2001	January 14, 2003
78th		January 14, 2003	January 11, 2005
79th		January 11, 2005	January 9, 2007
80th	Valinda Bolton	Democratic	January 9, 2007	January 13, 2009
81st		January 13, 2009	January 11, 2011
82nd	Paul Workman	Republican	January 11, 2011	January 8, 2013
83rd		January 8, 2013	January 13, 2015
84th		January 13, 2015	January 10, 2017
85th		January 10, 2017	January 8, 2019
86th	Vikki Goodwin	Democratic	January 8, 2019	January 12, 2021
87th		January 12, 2021	Present
88th	TBD	TBD	2023	2025

Notes and References

1. Web site: Texas House of Representatives District 47. 2021-11-02. Ballotpedia. en.
2. Web site: District Population Analysis with County Subtotals. 2 November 2021. data.capitol.texas.gov.
3. Web site: Legislative Reference Library of Texas. lrl.texas.gov. June 15, 2018.