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Republican incumbents had a big night Tuesday as all county offices maintained the status quo in the races for County Judge, County Commissioners, and Justice of the Peace.

Longtime County Judge Ray West retained his office by defeating Ronnie Lappe by getting more than 73% of the vote.  Commissioners Joel Kelton & Larry Traweek kept their offices as well as Justice of the Peace Jim Cavanaugh and Bryan Thompson.

Statewide races were slanted heavily Republican as well keeping incumbent Governor Rick Perry and US Congressman Mike Conaway in office.

Brown County had about a 41% voter turnout with 9,489 total votes cast in this election out of the more than 23,000 registered voters.  3,866 votes were cast as straight Republican with 563 voting straight Democrat.   4,265 were cast my mail and during the early voting period while 5,224 votes were cast on Election Day.

See full local results below along with some state office results.    100% of Brown County Results are reported while state elections reporting 99%.

 

Candidate # of Votes Percentage
County Judge
E. Ray West, III  (Rep) 6,890 73.56
Ronnie Lappe (Dem) 2,476 26.44
Judge County Court at Law
Frank Griffin (Rep) 8,196 100
District Clerk
Jan Brown (Rep) 8,320 100
County Clerk
Sharon Ferguson (Rep) 8,231 100
County Treasurer
Ann Krpoun (Rep) 8,130 100
County Surveyor
Don King (Rep) 8,126 100
County Commissioner, Pct. 2
Joel Kelton (Rep) 1,137 71.87
Charles Stavley (Dem) 445 28.13
County Commissioner, Pct. 4
Larry Traweek (Rep) 1,791 86.06
Ronnie Moore (Write-in) 290 13.94
Justice of the Peace, Pct. 1
Walter Croft (Rep) 2,481
Justice of the Peace, Pct. 2
Bob Wall (Rep) 1,320
Justice of the Peace, Pct. 3
Bryan Thompson (Rep) 2,063 74.96
Mike “Pappy” Bullard (Dem) 689 25.04
Justice of the Peace, Pct. 4
Jim Cavanaugh (Rep) 1,869 82.92
Selina Alexander (Dem) 385 17.08
US Representative Dist.11
Mike Conaway (Rep) 125,354 81
James Quillian (Dem) 23,939 15
James A. Powell (Lib) 4,318 3
Jim Howe (Grn) 1,450 1
Governor
Rick Perry (Rep) 2,733,657 57
Bill White (Dem) 2,102,500 41
Kathie Glass (Lib) 109,050 2
Deb Shafto (Grn) 19,474 0
Lieutenant Governor
David Dewhurst (Rep) 3,044,674 62
Linda Chavez-Thompson (Dem) 1,715,621 35
Scott Jameson (Lib) 121,904 2
Herb Gonzales, Jr (Grn) 44,798 1
Attorney General
Greg Abbott (Rep) 3,159,180 64
Barbara Ann Radnofsky (Dem) 1,652,216 34
Jon Roland (Lib) 111,876 2
Comptroller of Public Accounts
Susan Combs (Rep) 3,302,321 84
Mary J. Ruwart (Lib) 416,676 9
Edward Lindsay (Grn) 251,825 6
TX Agriculture Commisioner
Todd Staples (Rep) 2,948,895 61
Hank Gilbert (Dem) 1,734,510 36
Rick Donaldson 163,690 3
School Board Election # Votes Percentage
Board of Trustees Brookesmith ISD Top 3
Kevin Shumate 147 28.00
David Crysler 152 28.95
Rebecca N. Seamans 119 22.67
Joe Bush 107 20.38
Board of Trustees May ISD Top 4
Ada Turner 292 21.27
Joe Crume 285 20.76
Wanda Sissie Meador 241 17.55
Kevin Mote 264 19.23
Bo E. Allen 291 21.19