Texas Attorney General Primary Results

[TexasTowelie]

Republican Primary
Updated 1m ago
50% REPORTED
Candidate Votes Pct.
Ken Paxton*
379,350 +42.4%42.4%
George P. Bush
187,550 +20.9%20.9
Eva Guzman
187,550 +20.9%20.9
Louie Gohmert
141,162 +15.8%15.8
Total reported
895,612


Democratic Primary
Updated 1m ago
48% REPORTED
Candidate Votes Pct.
Rochelle Garza
220,981 +41.6%41.6%
Joe Jaworski
117,141 +22.0%22.0
Lee Merritt
99,093 +18.6%18.6
Total reported
531,658

Data source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/01/us/elections/results-texas.html

[blogslug]

1. Looks like a runoff for Ken and George P

also for Rochelle Garza and Joe Jaworski

[TexasTowelie]

2. It's way too early to know for certain.

I examined the data on the Texas Secretary of State site and nearly all of the votes came from early voting.

For unofficial results from the Texas SOS that include details by county use this site:
https://results.texas-election.com/landing-page

[blogslug]

3. I accept your correction

And in the long term, it won't matter if TX AG is Paxton or Bush because both of them are horrible.

My hope is Beto wins and he brings Democrats with him to take down the four-headed hydra of Texas government: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, AG and the Legislature.

[Stallion]

4. I Guees We Won't Have Louie Gohmert to Kick Around Anymore

What a glorious end to horiffic political career

[catrose]

5. Did he resign from the House?

[blogslug]

6. He gave up running for re-election to run for AG

So, technically he's still in office until his term ends. The wingnut candidate to replace him just won the primary with 63-ish% of the vote.

[blogslug]

7. With 75% GOP & 69% DEM votes in...

...it's looking like a primary runoff for both parties.

Maybe there's votes still to come from the big cities that could change things.

It's also possible Paxton will throw a tantrum and sue George P or scream about voter fraud or some other underhanded thing. He's like that.

[TexasTowelie]

8. The Texas SOS site

only shows the early vote for Bexar, Dallas, Tarrant, and Travis counties in the Democratic primary.

[blogslug]

9. I'm looking at the Statesman site

I'm not fond of the way the new terrible TX SOS has reconfigured the election results page.

https://www.statesman.com/elections/results/2022-03-01/state/texas/

[TexasTowelie]

10. The SOS site is a little bit more difficult to read, but it also presents more information

such as the early vote count and the number of precincts reporting in each county.

I'm inclined to believe that the race will go to a runoff, but until results are reported from Harris county I can't be certain.

[blogslug]

11. Understood

All good. We will find for sure out one way or another.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. I am glad that Louie lost

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