Official portrait of Lance Gooden
U.S. House

Lance Gooden

U.S. Representative for Texas’s 5th District

Party
Republican
In office since
January 3, 2019
Current term ends
January 3, 2027
Next election
November 2026
2026 election

Running for the House in TX-5

Candidates registered with the FEC for TX-5 in 2026
CandidatePartyRaisedCash on hand
Lance GoodenIncumbentRepublican$1.3M$1.3M
Ruth TorresDemocrat$21K$4,035
Travis EdwardsRepublican$18K$28
Chelsey Alexandra HockettDemocrat$13K$5,129

From Federal Election Commission filings, reported through June 30, 2026. FEC records show who registered and raised money, not who won a primary or qualified for the ballot. Your state election office publishes the official ballot.

Committee assignments2
  • House Committee on Armed Services
    • Tactical Air and Land Forces
    • Seapower and Projection Forces
    • Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation
  • House Committee on the Judiciary
    • Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet
    • The Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust
Contact
Washington office
2431 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4305

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Sources. Office, committee and contact records from the public congress-legislators dataset; portrait from the Government Publishing Office; 2026 fundraising totals from the Federal Election Commission. Updated September 24, 2026.

More on Gooden: Congress.gov · FEC filings · Ballotpedia · Wikipedia · GovTrack