Dec 14, 2019 | breaking-news, Local Elections
Mayor Sylvester Turner leads challenger Tony Buzbee, 56%-44%, in Harris Co. after early voting, and Fort Bend Co.’s precincts favor the incumbent, 92%-8%. At-large incumbents Mike Knox (58%), David Robinson (61%) and Michael Kubosh (63%) all lead comfortably after...
Dec 10, 2019 | breaking-news, Campaign News
Rep. Bill Zedler (R-Arlington) has formally withdrawn from the 2020 primary ballot and will not seek re-election, citing health issues. He was facing a primary challenge from Mansfield Mayor David Cook, who filed yesterday (Monday) just before the deadline. Because of...
Dec 3, 2019 | breaking-news, Campaign News
Rep. Rick Miller (R-Sugar Land) announced he was abandoning his re-election bid hours after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) rescinded his endorsement of the four-term lawmaker for comments Miller made to the Houston Chronicle’s Andrea Zelinski that his primary opponents were...
Jan 22, 2019 | breaking-news, Campaign News
Rep. Eric Johnson (D-Dallas) announced he would run for mayor, becoming the 10th candidate in the race, joining: Mike Ablon, real estate developer Albert Black, businessman and former Dallas Housing Authority chair Scott Griggs, patent attorney and four-term council...
Dec 15, 2018 | breaking-news, Campaign News
Citing health concerns, Rep. Joe Pickett (D-El Paso) announced he would resign effective January 4 and not serve the 13th term to which he was recently elected. “Just before last session, I learned I had cancer,” Pickett said in a statement. “I moved quickly and...
Nov 6, 2018 | breaking-news, Election Night Returns
Polls will close across most of Texas at 7 p.m. CST. Our live coverage can be found at https://txelects.wpengine.com/live/. You can also follow us on Twitter at @TXElects. We expect many of the state’s largest counties to begin reporting early vote totals right...
Oct 29, 2018 | breaking-news, Political Climate
Early voting continues through Friday. Today (Monday) was Day 8. Through the first seven days, just under 3M people – 24.3% of registered voters – have cast ballots in person and by mail in the 30 counties with the most registered voters. Another 600K votes cast in...
Oct 10, 2018 | breaking-news, Campaign Finance
State, legislative and local (where required) candidates facing general election opponents were required to file 30-day-out campaign finance reports yesterday. Most of those have become available online today. This report looks at key statewide and Senate races. A...
Sep 17, 2018 | breaking-news, By the Numbers
We apologize for having to resend this story, again, because our graphic still did not remain attached to the emailed version. In case it gets unattached again, the URL to the graphic is https://www.dropbox.com/s/d0ith6p28hfgrwx/sd19special.jpg?dl=0. 34% Percent of...
Jul 17, 2018 | breaking-news, Campaign Finance
State officeholders and candidates were required to file their July semiannual reports yesterday. Here we look at the statewide candidates’ results. We looked at key legislative races here. Please see our Crib Sheets for the latest numbers. GOV: Democratic...
Jun 18, 2018 | breaking-news, Campaign News
Almost four months after his conviction on 11 felony fraud counts, Sen. Carlos Uresti (D-San Antonio) announced he would resign, effective Thursday. “I am in the process of ensuring that justice is served,” Uresti wrote in a letter posted on his Facebook page. “I need...
May 22, 2018 | breaking-news, Election Night Returns
Polls will close at 7 p.m. local time across the state, at which time counties will begin to release early voting results. We will begin our live coverage at https://txelects.wpengine.com/live/ just after 7 p.m. CDT. We will also be posting some results on Twitter at...
