Membership Statistics for the first day of the 82nd Legislature:
| Description | House Members*** |
Senate Members |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender * | |||
| Male | 118 | 25 | 143 |
| Female | 32 | 6 | 38 |
| Party affiliation * | |||
| Democrat | 49 | 12 | 61 |
| Republican | 101 | 19 | 120 |
| Incumbency ** | |||
| Incumbents | 113 | 29 | 142 |
| Freshmen | 35 | 2 | 37 |
| Age * | |||
| Under 30 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 30 - 39 | 21 | 0 | 21 |
| 40 - 49 | 35 | 4 | 39 |
| 50 - 59 | 54 | 13 | 67 |
| 60 - 69 | 32 | 13 | 45 |
| 70 and over | 6 | 1 | 7 |
* Gender, party affiliation, and age calculations are based on the membership as of the first day of session: 01/11/2011.
** Incumbent totals include members who served the previous session. Freshman totals include members whose first terms began the first day of session: 01/11/2011.
- Not included as incumbent or freshman:
- Rep. William 'Bill' Zedler (first served in 78th session)
- Rep. Borris Miles (first served in 80th session)
- Rep. Jim Murphy (first served in 80th session)
*** Rep. Edmund Kuempel died on 11/4/2010. He was elected to the 82nd House of Representatives on 11/2/2010. He is not included in the statistics above.
You can find statistics for earlier sessions at http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/sessions/memberStatistics.cfm
