May 19, 2022 | Campaign News
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) endorsed former Waller Co. Comm. Stan Kitzman (R) in the runoff over Rep. Phil Stephenson (R-Wharton), one of four Republican legislators forced into runoffs this cycle. Abbott is at least the third statewide election official to endorse Kitzman,...
May 18, 2022 | Campaign News
Early voting for the May 24 primary runoff election continues through Friday. Through yesterday (Tues.), the second day of early voting, a total of 193K people had voted in the Republican primary in person (68%) or by mail (32%) and 129K people had voted in the...
May 4, 2022 | Campaign News
A new Univ. of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll shows Gov. Greg Abbott (R) leads Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke, 48%-37%, a 1-point larger margin from the school’s February poll. Abbott’s favorability rating is 46/40 (+6) while O’Rourke is underwater at 38/47...
May 1, 2022 | Campaign News
Jolanda Jones (D) out-raised Danielle Keys Bess (D), $41K to $36K, and outspent her, $53K to $22K, according to the HD147 (Safe D) special election candidates’ 8-day-out campaign finance reports. Jones has a $63K to $14K advantage in cash on hand going into this...
Apr 28, 2022 | Campaign News
The Congressional Leadership Fund Super PAC reserved more than $5M in advertising in the San Antonio market for CD28 ($3.9M) and CD15 ($2.2M). The Super PAC, which is aligned with U.S. House Republican leadership, announced a total of $125M in reservations, $111M of...
Apr 26, 2022 | Campaign News
Early voting continues for the May 7 general, special and constitutional amendment elections. Around 1% of Texas registered voters cast ballots in person or by mail through Monday, the first day of early voting, in the constitutional amendment election. Because there...
Mar 13, 2022 | Political Climate
Now that the dust has (almost) settled from the March 1 primary election, we like to go back and look at the storylines we were watching heading into Election Day. Statewides in Runoff or Runoffs? Turns out, it was runoffs. For the first time since 2002, more than one...
Mar 2, 2022 | Political Climate
Texas saw record turnout for last night’s (Tuesday’s) gubernatorial election, and it also saw record levels of non-participation. Some votes remain to be counted, but turnout numbers are expected to rise outside of rounding errors. Just shy of 3M Texans cast a ballot...
Mar 2, 2022 | breaking-news, Election Night Returns
Overnight developments: Dallas and Harris Cos. are still not reporting full results, and Tarrant Co. may be reporting full resorts (Report says not all precinct results are posted, but it’s vote center status report says all are completely reported.). Dallas Co. may...
Feb 28, 2022 | Political Climate
Tomorrow (Tuesday), Texas voters will cast ballots in the first-in-the-Nation primary election of this mid-term cycle. Our live coverage of results and analysis will begin at about 7 p.m. CT and can be found at txelects.com/live. Here are some of the storylines we’re...
Feb 27, 2022 | Campaign News
Early voting has ended for Tuesday’s primary elections. Unofficial, preliminary totals indicate early turnout is a little south of 10% of registered voters, but the totals are presently incomplete. Several counties, including Galveston Co., do not appear to have...
Feb 24, 2022 | Campaign News
Early voting concludes tomorrow (Friday) for Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation primary elections. Through yesterday (Wednesday), the 10th day of the early voting period, statewide turnout is 4.01% for the Republican primary and 2.45% for the Democratic primary. A little...
