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Texas's 17th district

Texas's 17th district has 800,373 residents on 10,437 mi² of land. It is represented by Pete Sessions (R-TX-17). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $678.1M in FY2026.

Residents
800,373
Land area
10,437 mi²
Counties
14
Representative
Pete Sessions
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Map of Texas's 17th district within Texas

Members for this district

Members who held this seat while these boundaries were in force, newest first.

Senators

The state's senators today, or on the last day of these boundaries for an older plan.

Counties

Share of the district's residents living in each county, and share of the county's residents living in the district (2020 census tracts weighted by their overlap).

  1. McLennan County33% of the district · 100% of the county
  2. Williamson County12% of the district · 14% of the county
  3. Angelina County11% of the district · 100% of the county
  4. Travis County10% of the district · 6.1% of the county
  5. Nacogdoches County8.1% of the district · 100% of the county
  6. Walker County7.5% of the district · 75% of the county
  7. Milam County3.2% of the district · 100% of the county
  8. Limestone County2.8% of the district · 100% of the county
  9. Houston County2.8% of the district · 100% of the county
  10. Falls County2.2% of the district · 100% of the county
  11. Robertson County2.1% of the district · 100% of the county
  12. Leon County2.0% of the district · 100% of the county
  13. Trinity County1.8% of the district · 100% of the county
  14. Freestone County1.1% of the district · 42% of the county

Federal contracts

Contract obligations attributed to the district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines.

Obligations · FY2026
$678.1M
Per resident
$847
Rank in Texas
22 of 38
Contract actions
2,231
New awards: 1,034

By fiscal year

  1. 294.5MFY2017
  2. 366.8MFY2018
  3. 331.5MFY2019
  4. 453.5MFY2020
  5. 465.5MFY2021
  6. 548MFY2022
  7. 646.2MFY2023
  8. 807.8MFY2024
  9. 492.5MFY2025
  10. 678.1MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Air Force$315.8M47%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs$142.5M21%
  3. Defense Contract Management Agency$59M8.7%
    Department of Defense
  4. Department of the Navy$47.9M7.1%
    Department of Defense
  5. Department of the Army$27.7M4.1%
    Department of Defense
  6. U.S. Coast Guard$11.5M1.7%
    Department of Homeland Security
  7. Forest Service$11M1.6%
    Department of Agriculture
  8. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office$10.3M1.5%
    Department of Commerce

Top recipients

  1. L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS L.P.$375M55%
    41 awards
  2. DELL FEDERAL SYSTEMS L.P$146.6M22%
    213 awards
  3. HURLEY JV 2, LLP$23.2M3.4%
    1 award
  4. DELL MARKETING L.P.$22.2M3.3%
    87 awards
  5. AMETRINE INC$21.8M3.2%
    11 awards
  6. WICHITA FALLS TRI-TECH, LLC$14.9M2.2%
    3 awards
  7. DECISIVE POINT CONSULTING GROUP, LLC$10M1.5%
    7 awards
  8. IMPRES TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC$6.5M1.0%
    67 awards
  9. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$4.8M0.7%
    197 awards
  10. ACT1 FEDERAL LLC$4.7M0.7%
    1 award

Other boundaries

District lines change between plans; each plan keeps its own page.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.