A low-key, low-turnout primary runoff election Tuesday set the slates for November’s general elections — starting with the Democratic nominee for governor.
Texas Elections 2018
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz defeated Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke in the race for U.S. Senate. View full 2018 Texas election results or subscribe to The Brief for the latest election news.
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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.
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After DWI arrest, René Oliveira is one of two Texas House incumbents voted out
The veteran state representative and freshman state Rep. Scott Cosper were the only two incumbents in runoffs Tuesday night; both lost.
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Texas candidate for border county judge allegedly calls local Democratic chairman and makes threat referencing “damn Zetas”
Rudy Bowles, a candidate in the Democratic runoff for Maverick County judge, is accused of leaving the county party chairman a voicemail in which he makes a demand and promises to call the “damn Zetas” if he does not get his way.
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Here’s what to expect in the Texas runoff elections
Texas voters will decide major-party nominees Tuesday in 33 primaries that went to an overtime round after the March elections.
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Meet the candidates in the Texas primary runoffs
With Texas’ 2018 primary runoff election here, meet the candidates who are on ballots today in races for statewide, congressional and legislative offices.
