UPDATE: Van Taylor has dropped his bid for re-election, handing the Republican nomination to Keith Self. Original Story: North Texas U.S. Rep. Van Taylor may not be headed back to Washington, D.C., for a third term, after failing to win a majority of votes in a...
UPDATED March 2. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was forced into a runoff with George P. Bush in Tuesday’s four-way primary election to become the Republican nominee in November. Paxton finished first with 43 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results...
Laura Rummel and Tracie Shipman are headed to a runoff for a vacant city council seat in Frisco, after no candidate received a majority of the votes in a special election held Saturday. Rummel and Shipman were two of three candidates who ran to fill the Frisco City...
A special election to fill the vacant state legislative seat in Texas House District 10 is headed to a runoff between two Republicans, former Trump administration official Brian Harrison and former State Rep. John Wray. The two were among eight candidates competing to...
A special runoff election to fill the North Texas congressional seat left by the late U.S. Rep. Ron Wright (R–Arlington) has been set for Tuesday, July 27. On Wednesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the runoff election date for Congressional District 6, which...
Last week’s deadly snowstorms that precipitated power cuts to millions of Texans also kept North Texas voters from going to the polls to cast early ballots in Tuesday’s special election for a vacant Texas House seat. Republicans David Spiller and Craig Carter are in a...
Voters in a North Texas House district must go to the polls one more time before residents there have full representation in the Texas Legislature. Saturday’s five-way special election to fill the vacant House District 68 seat ended without a majority winner, so top...
State Rep. Drew Springer (R–Muenster) is headed to the Texas Senate after winning a special runoff election Saturday over fellow Republican and political newcomer Shelley Luther. Springer, an Austin insider backed by the political establishment, took 56 percent of the...
Candidates in a contentious runoff for a North Texas state Senate seat faced off on Wednesday in a final debate before the Saturday special election. Republicans Shelley Luther and State Rep. Drew Springer (Muenster) are competing to represent Texas Senate District 30...
Political newcomer Shelley Luther and State Rep. Drew Springer (R–Muenster) are headed to a runoff to decide who voters want to be their next state senator representing Senate District 30, which covers 14 mostly rural North Texas counties. Luther and Springer each won...
In another major victory for Texas conservatives and a major defeat for Gov. Greg Abbott, liberal incumbent J.D. Sheffield (R–Gatesville) was vanquished by attorney and small-business owner Shelby Slawson. On election night in the March primary, Slawson shocked many...
While the Chinese coronavirus and government-ordered shutdowns have put much of everyday Texans’ lives on hold, one thing is still certain—there are elections on the horizon. One such primary runoff election will see a veteran congressman attempting a comeback, facing...
A runoff election rarely bodes well for an incumbent lawmaker, the logic being that once someone has held office, if they can’t get more than 50 percent of the vote during a primary race, they likely won’t win the ensuing runoff. That could ultimately end up being the...
Straggling mail-in and provisional ballots from the November general election have tipped the scales in the race for Midland Independent School District’s District 5 seat. Based on Election Night results, candidates Heidi Kirk and Thomas Wolfmueller were headed for a...
Local attorney Curtis Parrish has won the GOP nomination for Lubbock County Judge after receiving 54 percent of the vote. Unofficial election results show Parrish garnering 5,563 votes and his opponent, businessman Gary Boren, garnering 4,693 – a very different...
Hundreds of candidates in dozens of local government entities vied for elected office around the Metroplex on May 6. But as usual, the local elections drew relatively small numbers of voters. Only one of four DFW-area counties reported double-digit turnout. And one...
With an exceptional number of Straus committee chairs retiring from the House, the recent Republican primary election saw a large amount of open seats in play. Conservatives were able to capture some of these open seats outright on election night. Other races are yet...
If anything can be taken from Tuesday night’s victory for Ted Cruz and others around the state, it’s that the Tea Party is as powerful of a force as it ever was. The passion and determination of the movement was something remarkable to witness. It safe to assume our...
