Election results: Jackson wins reelection by a landslide; no major local surprises
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Incumbent Republican for the 13th Congressional District, Ronny Jackson won reelection going away Tuesday night, keeping his seat in Congress against Democratic rival Kathleen Brown with 99% of the voting being reported.
U.S. Rep. Jackson, R-Amarillo, won 75% of the district's vote, which covers much of the Texas Panhandle, with 161,562 votes to his opponent's 52,739. He won 79% of the vote to the safe Republican seat in his inaugural election.
Four Price, the State House District Representative for District 87, also easily won reelection with 87% of the vote totaling 32,858 votes to his Libertarian opponent Nick Hearn, who garnered 4,882 votes. State Rep. Price, R-Amarillo, has served the district now for over a decade since winning the seat in 2010.
With most of its races already decided in the May primaries, Potter County had only three contested races for election.
After winning her primary in May with no Democratic opposition on the ballot, Republican incumbent Potter County Judge Nancy Tanner defeated a write-in campaign from local businessman Tom Warren with 94% of the total votes. Tanner, who won her primary with 64% of the votes, was surprisingly not endorsed by the Potter County Republican Party, which endorsed her write-in opponent due to a variety of issues, including being disgruntled with her placement of Robert Ruiz, a Democrat, as an interim commissioner to replace an outgoing Democratic commissioner.
Ruiz did not win reelection in Precinct No. 4, losing to Republican candidate Blair Schaffer, an Amarillo firefighter, with 1,484 votes to 989. Schaffer won 59% of the vote.
In the lone Potter County Justice of the Peace race, Republican Robert Taylor got 62% of the vote to his opponent, David DeLeon’s 35% for the Precinct No. 2 position. Taylor received 1,484 votes to Deleon’s 897.
State races went on with no surprise results as all Republican incumbents won reelection.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott won against high-profile Democrat Beto O’Rourke with 55% of the state’s vote compared to O’Rourke’s 44%, which is slightly off the margin of his victory in 2018 over Democrat Lupe Valdez. The race was the most expensive gubernatorial race in Texas history, with about $150 million being spent between both candidates.
In a rematch of the 2018 election for Lieutenant Governor, Republican Dan Patrick won by a larger margin than the previous election, with 43% of the vote to Collier’s 42% of the vote.
Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has been plagued by securities fraud charges since 2015 and an FBI investigation for abuse of office, won his third term with 53% of the vote to his Democratic opponent’s 44% with 98% of the ballots counted. Paxton had been criticized by his Republican primary opponents for his indictment and for joining a lawsuit to attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election in four states that Donald Trump lost. Paxton grabbed a larger percentage of votes in this year’s election than in 2018, when he won by 3% of the vote.
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar and Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller both easily won their third term in their respective offices with 56% of the vote as of publication. Wayne Christian won reelection as Texas Railroad Commissioner over Luke Warford, gardening 55% of the votes.
Texas Panhandle Races
U.S. Representative District 13
Ronny Jackson (R) 161,562
Kathleen Brown (D) 52,739
State Representative District 87
Four Price (R) 32,858
Nick Hearn (L) 4,882
Potter County races
Potter County Judge
Nancy Tanner (R) 17,737
Tom Warren (Write-In) 1,095
Potter County Commissioners Precinct No. 4
Blair Schaffer (R) 1,408
Robert Ruiz (D) 989
Potter County Justice of the Peace Precinct No. 2
Robert Taylor (R) 1,484
David Deleon (D) 897
Randall County races
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 3
Debra Lehrmann (R) 38,731 - 81.43%
Erin A. Nowell (D) 7,852 - 16.51%
Thomas Edward Oxford (L) 978 - 2.06%Justice, Supreme Court, Place 5
Rebeca Huddle (R) - 39,365 - 82.89%
Amanda Reichek (D) - 8,126 - 17.11%Justice, Supreme Court, Place 9
Evan Young (R) 39,143 - 82.49%
Julia Maldonado (D) 8,311 - 17.51%
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 5
Scott Walker (R) 39,319 - 82.72%
Dana Huffman (D) 8,211 - 17.28%
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 6
Jesse F. McClure, III (R) 39,288 - 82.88%
Robert Johnson (D) 8,115 - 17.12%
At-Large School Board Trustee
Nick Albracht - 8 - 23.53%
Sam Wilson - 3 - 8.82%
Lance Sides - 5 - 14.71%
Andi Leavitt - 3 - 8.82%
Clay B. Crist - 9 - 26.47%
Wes Moore - 3 - 8.82%
Shannon Leavitt - 3 - 8.82%
This article originally appeared on Amarillo Globe-News: Ronny Jackson wins reelection by a landslide; no major local surprises
