Brownwood News – The Democratic Primary Runoff voting for Brown County was held from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. May 22nd at the Brown County Elections Office located at 613 N. Fisk Avenue across from the courthouse.
In Brown County the Democrat Party Runoff ballot was for the Office of Governor, with candidates Lupe Valdez and Andrew White vying to represent the Democratic Party in the upcoming Texas Governor Election.
At the close of voting on May 22nd, the Brown County Elections Office reported 82 total votes in the Democratic Runoff Election. Andrew White received 43 votes, or 53.09 percent, and Lupe Valdez received 38 votes, or 46.91 percent.
Statewide results differed however, and Lupe Valdez showed victory with 227,642 votes, or 53.1 percent, to Andrew White’s 201,442 votes, or 46.9 percent.
graphic from TexasTribune.org
The winner of the runoff will challenge Republican Governor Greg Abbott. The last time a Democrat held the governor’s office was 1995.
Democratic Party primary elections were held in Texas on March 6, 2018, in order to select the party’s candidates for Texas’ 2018 elections. These primaries included elections for the U.S. Senate, all 36 of the state’s seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, Texas Governor and Texas Lieutenant Governor, and Texas Attorney General.
The two top vote-getters in the Democratic primary for governor of Texas advanced to the runoff election: Lupe Valdez and Andrew White. They defeated eight other candidates. Photo at top from Texas Public Radio.
About the Candidates – from texastribune.org
Lupe Valdez left her post as Dallas County sheriff last year to run for governor. Before becoming the first openly gay Hispanic female sheriff elected in the nation, she worked as a federal agent and captain in the U.S. Army.
Andrew White is the son of Mark White, who served as Texas governor in the 1980s. Andrew White has started a number of businesses in his native Houston and currently owns Geovox Security, a company that sells technology that has been used at the border to detect people hiding in vehicles, though he’s said he’ll divest from the company.
