(HOUSTON) — A one-seat Texas House gain that Democrats have called historic could evaporate into a loss of one or two seats for the state's minority party if Republicans prevail in races that could still be up for grabs in Houston, San Antonio and Austin. Apparent wins by Democratic challengers Hubert Vo of Houston and David Leibowitz of San Antonio, Democratic State Rep. David Farabee of Wichita Falls and Republican State Rep. Todd Baxter of Austin all appeared to be in jeopardy at some point today. Farabee appears to be out of the woods temporarily in a race whose unofficial outcome was not determined until almost two days after the polls closed Tuesday.

Democrats are already accusing Republicans of attempting to steal what appeared on election night to be a Hubert Vo victory over powerful State Rep. Talmadge Heflin in a west Houston race. A situation resembling the Florida recount of 2000 has erupted in Houston on a smaller scale as a GOP legal team led by lawyer Andy Taylor and a battery of lawyers for the Democrat jockey for position in a potentially expensive and protracted legal fight over the outcome of the Vo-Heflin battle. The Harris County election administrator appears to agree with Heflin's assertion that he trails Vo by only 38 votes with as many as 400 military and provisional ballots yet to be counted. The Secretary of State's office and the county elections office both have shown Vo with a 52-vote lead since early Wednesday morning when all of the unofficial returns were finally counted in the House District 149 race. But the outcome is still in question with the remaining votes not scheduled to be counted until Sunday afternoon.