Texas's 47th House of Representatives district

Texas's 47th State House of Representatives district
Representative	Vikki Goodwin D–Austin
Demographics	62.1% White 4.0% Black 15.9% Hispanic 16.1% Asian 8.4% Other
Population (2020)  • Voting age	203,643 153,837

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.

The district is home to many in Austin.

List of representatives

Leg.	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
17th			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	Blanco, Hays, Llano, Travis
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