With their victories the Texas congressional delegation shifted from a 21-6 Democratic advantage to only 17–10.
Beau Boulter, Mac Sweeney and Dick Armey upset three incumbent Democratic congressmen.
Larry Combest won an open seat being vacated by retiring Democrat, later Republican Kent Hance, while Joe Barton and Tom DeLay won seats vacated by retiring Republicans Phil Gramm and Ron Paul, respectively.
For Sweeney, Combest, and Armey it was the first time their districts had ever elected a Republican to congress.
Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, who ran the same year for Vice President of the United States; while Sweeney was defeated in his bid for re-election by Greg Laughlin.