Collin County voters favored Democrat Evan Hunt in the 3rd Congressional District, but Republican U.S. Rep. Keith Self kept the seat on the strength of the district's six rural counties to the east, according to unofficial returns and an Associated Press call.
McKinney sits entirely inside the 3rd District under the congressional map the Legislature adopted in 2025, a breakdown by the Texas Legislative Council shows. The district also takes in Allen, Anna, Melissa, Princeton and part of Plano, plus all of Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Morris and Titus counties and most of Hunt County.
The AP declared Self the winner overnight. NBC News' results page, with an estimated 99% of the expected vote counted, showed him with 169,243 votes (52.7%) to Hunt's 151,667 (47.3%).
How the counties split
Collin County, the district's population center, went to Hunt 134,580 to 128,340, or 51.19% to 48.81%, in the county's last election-night summary, issued at 1:02 a.m. once all 90 vote centers had reported.
Outside Collin, Self carried every county by wide margins, according to NBC's county tallies: about 67% in Hunt County, 76% in Hopkins, 81% in both Delta and Franklin, and about two-thirds or more in Morris and Titus. Those counties gave him a net edge of roughly 23,800 votes, more than offsetting Hunt's lead of about 6,200 in Collin.
County judge stays close
On the same ballot, the countywide race for Collin County judge was one of the tightest in the region. Republican County Judge Chris Hill finished with 217,401 votes (50.22%) to 215,538 (49.78%) for Democrat John R. "Buster" Brown, a margin of 1,863 votes out of more than 432,000 cast in the race, according to the county's report.
