Though her primary fight against fellow Democrat Laura Moser drew national attention, Lizzie Fletcher’s general election race against U.S. Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston, is poised to create plenty of buzz as well.
Texas Elections 2018
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Outside groups spent big backing either centrists or hard-line conservatives in GOP House runoffs. The centrists went 5 for 7.
Five of the seven Texas House GOP runoffs were won by candidates who had support from two groups aligned with retiring House Speaker Joe Straus and other establishment Republicans.
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In these four Texas counties, no one voted in the Democratic primary runoffs
Hall, King, Lynn and McMullen counties held Democratic runoff elections but no one voted. Each county only had one Democratic matchup on their ballots: the gubernatorial race between Lupe Valdez and Andrew White.
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Dan Crenshaw, Chip Roy, Michael Cloud among Republican congressional runoff winners
In Tuesday’s primary runoff election, Texas voters cast ballots in six Republican congressional races across the state.
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Analysis: With runoffs complete, the 2018 Texas general elections begin in earnest
A low-key, low-turnout primary runoff election Tuesday set the slates for November’s general elections — starting with the Democratic nominee for governor.
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View full results from Tuesday’s Texas primary runoffs
Texas hosted more than 30 primary runoff races on Tuesday. View full results from every contest here.
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Hard-line conservatives lose big in Texas House runoffs
Most of the seven Texas House Republican primary runoffs fell along familiar ideological fault lines in the Republican Party. The more moderate candidates won in most cases.
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Voter turnout in a Texas Democratic gubernatorial runoff hasn’t been this low in nearly 100 years
Democrat Lupe Valdez will face off against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in the fall. Two incumbents in the Texas House lost their runoffs. And Democrats had their worst runoff turnout in almost a century.
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Lizzie Pannill Fletcher defeats Laura Moser in Texas Democratic primary runoff; Gina Ortiz Jones seals nomination
Attorney Lizzie Pannill Fletcher defeated activist Laura Moser in a Democratic congressional primary that drew national attention. Meanwhile, former Air Force Intelligence Officer Gina Ortiz Jones easily won her runoff for the 23rd Congressional District.
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Lupe Valdez becomes first openly gay and first Latina candidate to win a major party nomination for Texas governor
After swapping leads early in the Democratic gubernatorial runoff, Valdez pulled ahead of White and will face incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott.