Texas Primary Results Thread

1:25am (J): Team SSP is signing off for the night. Feel free to keep the flame going in the comments, though.

12:43am (J): Ugh, the AP has called the TX-22 Dem nomination for LaRouchite nutcase Kesha Rogers. Check out these pics that we pulled from her campaign website.

12:36am: Man, check out that Land Commissioner race: Austin attorney Hector Uribe leads east Texas realtor Bill Burton by 236,921 to 236,634. That’s less than 300 votes.

12:20am: Ultra-geezer Ralph Hall is winning with just 58%. A united front could surely unseat him in 2012 – if he doesn’t retire. His weakness perhaps suggests his district might also be on the chopping block come redistricting. Despite his extraordinarily advanced age, he just doesn’t have that much seniority in the GOP caucus, since he only switched in 2004.

12:12am (D): TX-17 and TX-23 Republican primaries will go to runoffs, between Flores/Curnock and Canseco/Hurd respectively. Meanwhile, over in TX-22, some f*cking LaRouchie is leading the Dem field with 53% of the vote. Hard to believe Nick Lampson was our nominee here less than two years ago.

11:59pm: Looking at the Board of Eduaction again… Over in the ominously-named District 9, “moderate” Republican Tom Ratliff is ahead of lunatic Republican Don McLeroy by just under 2000 votes with most of the votes counted.

10:59pm (J): The AP has called the Ag Commish race for Hank Gilbert. Kinky Friedman will have to find some other way into this show.

10:56pm: TX-18: Sheila Jackson Lee has been declared the victor. Jarvis Johnson got into the race too late.

10:37pm (J): Despite the snoozefest at the top of the ballot, there are some pretty suspenseful elections for the TX Board of Education — especially in District 9. Darth Jeff has the details.

10:32pm: Looks like her wish came true: KBH just called Rick Perry to concede. Presumably her brain trust ran the numbers and found he’d stay over 50% no matter what.

10:27pm: The saddest thing is that KBH is up in her hotel suite praying that Rick Perry doesn’t fall below 50%.

10:12pm: The TX-23 Dem primary has been called for Ciro Rodriguez – no surprise there. The GOP side is a bit more interesting, with Quico leading Hurd 37-31. Still three quarters of the vote to count, so maybe Quico will lose again. UPDATE: Of course, there’s still the little matter of the run-off….

10:10pm (D): Check out the race for Land Commissioner – the two Dems are literally tied at 50% apiece.

10:09pm (J): 18% in, and Perry sits at 52.2%.

9:59pm (David): 13% and Perry’s at 52.5%. I’m not optimistic.

9:36pm: With 6.9% in, Perry’s take has nudged down to 52.6%.

9:24pm: Wowza. Incumbent Republican Railroad Commissioner Victor G. Carrillo is losing his primary to newcomer David Porter by 19 points. That’s a shockingly huge spread to me, but I wasn’t giving that race any attention at all. Can any local commenters fill in the gaps on this one?

9:17pm: Let’s look at some House races! With 8.3% in, TX-04 fossil Ralph Hall is checking in at under 57%. In TX-17, Bill Flores leads ’08 candidate Rob Curnock by 36-27. And in TX-23, Quico Canseco leads Will Hurd by 36-30.

9:08pm: The AP calls it for White, which was expected, but still good news. Perry’s at 52.9% with just 2.8% of precincts reporting.

9:04pm: Just looking further down the totem poll here… Surprisingly (to me, at least), Kinky Friedman is down by about 8 points to Hank Gilbert in the Ag Commissioner race. Linda Chavez-Thompson has a bigger lead on Ronnie Earle for the Lt-Governor nod, but there are still tons of votes left to count.

8:47pm (James): Wow. It looks like Democrat Eileen Filler-Corn just barely retained the swingy VA-HD41 seat by a margin of 42 votes. I’d expect a recount!

8:31pm: While the Texas results trickle in, that VA House race is super-close. However, Johnny thinks the remaining precincts probably favor the Dem.

8:15pm: Some early numbers (less than 1% reporting) show White just crushing while Perry is over 50%.

Polls have just closed in most of Texas (though they are still open another hour in the El Paso area). We’ll be bringing you returns as they come in. If you have any other good sites for results links, please let us know.

Results: Politico | Associated Press | Secretary of State

163 thoughts on “Texas Primary Results Thread”

  2. I know for the Illinois Primary there were a few sites where you could watch the TV news coverage of the results. Anyone have links for that in Texas?

  6. Bolognese is a long shot to win. Virginia has become pretty blue pretty quickly, and that may be too much for him to overcome.

    Also, in the Fairfax County, Virginia School Board District, the Democrat Sandy Evans is leading the Republican Sam Rucker 57-42. The Democratic Primary for a Roanoke City Council seat is even closer than Bolognese’s race with just 5 (!) votes seperating the top two vote-getters as of 8:12 PM.

    Anybody have the connecticut results?

  7.  I think Perry will be able to avoid a runoff. He seems to be doing poorly in the rural areas which are reporting more quickly than the urban areas.  

  9. Filler-Corn is down by three votes. The last precinct is Burke, which Marsden won 55-45 in 2009.

  12. Just looked at political and with 1.4% of the vote White has 77%. Yes more than 98% of precincts to go but there is no doubt that White has not only won but avoided a runoff completely.

    Too early for the GOP side, although Perry may actually avoid a runoff after all.

  14. Rogers had 57% with some absentees in. Hope that she drops below 50% or else that district will have a LaRouche Youth member who advocates impeaching Obama as the Dem nominee

  17. That said, the reports so far are rather odd. Perry’s overperforming in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, while Hutchison’s overperforming in the rural, less-populated regions. I’d like to see more numbers out of Dallas County and Collin County before I completely write a run-off off.

  19. Most of the machines used a paperless direct-recording electronic systems, which do not permit an effective recount (see p. 23 of this report.

  23. Doug Blatt DEM 964 25.85%

    Kesha Rogers DEM 1,910 51.23%

    Freddie John Wieder Jr. DEM 854 22.90%

    Rogers is the Lyndon LaRouche supporter who wants to impeach Obama. Wieder is a Libertarian. Blatt doesn’t have any unusual traits. If Rogers get a majority, then someone needs to get slapped hard for letting a Lymming through the primary. If it’s a runoff, time still exists.

  27. The republicans have a history of voting out appointed hispanics from statewide offices.

  34. In HD-100 (D), Eric Johnson is listed as beating incumbent Terri Hodge 70-30. Might this just be geographical bias?

    The closest races seem to be Uribe v Burton in the D Lands race, 50.5-49.5, and seneral R board of education spots where the incumbent is losing barely (1%) to a teabagger.

    There do seem to be quite a few imcumbent legislators going down so far.

    Check out the R race for Supreme Court #3: 18%-18%-17%-17%-16%-10%. Talk about up in the air with 20% reporting.

  36. A user above posted an image that somehow seriously messed with the formatting of the comments. I hate to do it, but I had no choice but to delete the comment.  

  37. is now showing Perry at 51.83%, with 28% reporting.  That’s compared to 52.79% of the early vote.  It’s looking like it will be close.

  39. The outcome of the races will have national implications- if the crazies have a majority they’ll be able to get some pretty nutty material into Texas’ textbooks.  Since Texas is so big publishers will use those books nationwide.

    In District 9 we have a close race.  McLeroy (a crazy) is slightly behind Ratiff (a moderate).  There’s no Democrat running, so the winner here will be on the board barring some very strange occurrence.  This one’s worth keeping an eye on tonight: since there’s only two candidates there won’t be a runoff.  

  40. Kesha Rogers is going to wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy, assuming that P Diddy would be leading the field with 53% with 83% of the votes counted…

  41. I don’t know much about Farney but Russell’s a real crackpot.  

    There are a few bits of good news: unlike the two uncalled races we have a Democratic candidate.  Taking a short look at the district it has a bit of Democratic-leaning Travis County and swingy Fort Bend County.  Unfortunately most of the rest of the district is pure Red: our chances here in November are probably enhanced with Russell as the nominee, but it’s probably not enough.

    The other bit of good news is that Russell’s far behind Farney and Osborne’s combined total.  Assuming the reasonably-sane Republicans unite behind Farney he should be good.  The biggest problem I see is that in April this will be the biggest game in town and I’m guessing the crackpots will be most motivated to show up.

    Hopefully Ratliff and Miller win rendering this race much less important.  If either go down this race will be extremely critical.  If both lose than we’re already in trouble, but we should still hope Russell goes down in case Clayton turns out not to be as bad as I think he’ll be.

  42. Chuck Norris’s anti-judicial Rick Green is basically guaranteed the runoff, 8000 votes ahead of the next competitor.

    The other that will appear in the runoff (there are 5 judge candidates) is likely to Debra Lehrmann or Jim Moseley (1,000 vote difference w/80% reporting), and Rebecca Simmons has a very long shot (another 1000 votes behind and underperforming in the non-early votes).

    Does anybody have an idea of the ideologies of the three runners-up that could advance?

  45. Some of the candidates that get nominated, sometimes makes you yearn for the days of smoke filled rooms and machine politics.

    The bigger problem isn’t the candidates, it’s the voters.  People who are uneducated about the candidates and just vote because

    This is one of the reasons I don’t think, in Texas, we should let all the voters elect our party chairs.

  46. Collin County’s narrowly breaking to McLeroy but Ratliff still has his 51%-49% lead.  97% of the district is in.  Looks fairly good for Ratliff and his 1,130ish vote lead.  

    To recap: if Ratliff wins and Miller goes down then District 10’s runoff will be critical.  Miller’s down but with so much left she’s not out.    

  47. Assuming Ratliff’s small lead holds (looks good, but not definite) than we’ll have a 7-7 split, on the school board between insane Republicans and an alliance of moderate Republicans and Democrats.  This is assuming no Democrat is replaced in November by a nutcase.  However, considering Democrats have only 5 of the 15 seats on the Board, I’d say Democrats have hit their floor in Texas.  I’ll need to look at the individual seats to be sure though.

    The 8th seat on either side will be decided in the run-off in April.  i’ve written about it a bit on this page so I’ll avoid repetition except to say this will be a VERY critical race.

  48. A warm one.

    Because if you don’t, the zombies have their nominee waiting in the wings.  Or the vampires.  Or something.

  49. the only way to lose a statewide Texas Democratic primary if you have a Hispanic last name is to have a super-prominent opponent like Bill White. Look at the Lt. Governor and Land Commissioner results.

  50. History time first

    Al Edwards was a long time incumbent in this AA district. However, he was a corporate tool (or just a tool). Progressive Miles challenged him in 2006 and won.

    Then Miles went crazy, and showed up drunk at a party made out with someone against their will and waived a gun around (allegedly, probably) Edwards beat Miles in the rematch.

    Well round 3 just finished.

    Al Edwards (I)  5,020

    Boris Miles       5,031

    MILES WINS BY 11 VOTES!  W00T!

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