About Legislative District 29

This is one of four Hispanic majority districts and one of five minority-majority districts in the state. Democrats lost an absolute majority of registered voters in 2004. But since 2002, Republicans have lost an even greater percentage of their registration base (10 percent for the GOP vs. 7.4 percent for Democrats). This district has the seventh-highest percentage of persons older than 25 who did not complete high school and the fifth-smallest percentage of people with college degrees. It also has the fourth-highest percentage of residents living below the poverty level and the second-lowest per-capita income. Though lacking an absolute majority, this district is still regarded as safe for Democrats.