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Republican · 3 November 2026
Beth Van Duyne
U.S. Representative for Texas's 24th congressional district (since 2021)
Beth Van Duyne, a Republican who has represented Texas's 24th congressional district since 2021 and was mayor of Irving from 2011 to 2017, seeks re-election in 2026 against Democrat Kevin Burge.
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Beth Van Duyne recognizes Texas-24 Hometown Heroes, honoring local contributors. Ursuline Academy of Dallas highlights that several community members (Misses Nipp, Chinuntdet, and Butler) were named Hometown Heroes by…
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- Born
- November 16, 1970
- Birthplace
- Albany, New York
- Education
- Greenhill School
Cornell University (Bachelor of Arts in city and regional planning, government, and law)
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Background
Beth Van Duyne was born on November 16, 1970, in Albany, New York, and lived in Amsterdam, New York, until she was seven before moving to Cooperstown. Her family moved to Irving, Texas, in 1986. She graduated from Greenhill School in Addison, Texas, and from Cornell University, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in city and regional planning, government, and law. She met her former husband, Chris Wallach, at Cornell, and they have two children.
Career
Van Duyne entered local politics after a dispute over a zoning case in her neighborhood, defeating Irving city councillor Herbert Gears in the 2004 election. She left the council in 2010 and defeated Gears for mayor of Irving in 2011, beating him again in a 2014 rematch.
She served as mayor until 2017, when President Donald Trump appointed her in May as a regional administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, overseeing Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana and Arkansas.
After Kenny Marchant announced his retirement, Van Duyne resigned from HUD to run for the 24th district. She won the March 3, 2020, Republican primary with about 65% of the vote and defeated Democrat Candace Valenzuela in the general election, 48.8% to 47.5%.
She was re-elected over Democrat Jan McDowell in 2022 and Democrat Sam Eppler in 2024. In the House she serves on the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Small Business, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Regulations.
2026 race
Beth Van Duyne is running in a 24th district that redistricting redrew for 2026 around Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, taking in northeast Tarrant County suburbs such as Grapevine and Southlake, the Park Cities and most of north Dallas.
The new lines placed two incumbents in the district, Van Duyne and Democrat Julie Johnson, and Johnson has since decided to seek re-election in the redrawn 33rd district. Van Duyne was unopposed in the Republican primary, receiving 71,506 votes.
In the November 3, 2026, general election she faces Democrat Kevin Burge, an IT security specialist who won his party's nomination in a runoff against entrepreneur TJ Ware with 78.1% of the vote.