united states house of representatives elections , 1996
most of the incumbent representatives from 1996 united states house of representatives elections belonged to the republican party .
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most_eq { all_rows ; party ; republican } = true
for the party records of all rows , most of them fuzzily match to republican .
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['district', 'incumbent', 'party', 'first elected', 'result', 'candidates']
[['texas 5', 'john bryant', 'democratic', '1982', 'retired to run for us senate republican gain', 'pete sessions ( r ) 53.07 % john pouland ( d ) 46.93 %'], ['texas 8', 'jack fields', 'republican', '1980', 'retired republican hold', 'kevin brady ( r ) 59.11 % gene fontenot ( d ) 40.89 %'], ['texas 9', 'steve stockman', 'republican', '1994', 'lost re - election democratic gain', 'nick lampson ( d ) 52.83 % steve stockman ( r ) 47.16 %'], ['texas 19', 'larry combest', 'republican', '1984', 're - elected', 'larry combest ( r ) 80.37 % john sawyer ( d ) 19.63 %'], ['texas 22', 'tom delay', 'republican', '1984', 're - elected', 'tom delay ( r ) 68.11 % scott cunningham ( d ) 31.89 %']]