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James Montoya
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2025 - Present
2028
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James Montoya (Democratic Party) is the El Paso County District Attorney in Texas. Montoya assumed office on January 1, 2025. Montoya's current term ends on December 31, 2028.
Montoya (Democratic Party) ran for election for El Paso County District Attorney in Texas. Montoya won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Elections
2024
See also: Municipal elections in El Paso County, Texas (2024)
General election
General election for El Paso County District Attorney
James Montoya defeated incumbent Bill D. Hicks in the general election for El Paso County District Attorney on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | James Montoya (D) | 57.3 | 128,600 | |
Bill D. Hicks (R)  | 42.7 | 95,899 | ||
| Total votes: 224,499 | |||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for El Paso County District Attorney
James Montoya defeated Alma Trejo in the Democratic primary runoff for El Paso County District Attorney on May 28, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | James Montoya | 52.0 | 12,622 | |
| Alma Trejo | 48.0 | 11,645 | ||
| Total votes: 24,267 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for El Paso County District Attorney
James Montoya and Alma Trejo advanced to a runoff. They defeated Nancy Casas in the Democratic primary for El Paso County District Attorney on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | James Montoya | 37.5 | 13,092 | |
| ✔ | Alma Trejo | 35.5 | 12,408 | |
| Nancy Casas | 27.0 | 9,420 | ||
| Total votes: 34,920 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for El Paso County District Attorney
Incumbent Bill D. Hicks advanced from the Republican primary for El Paso County District Attorney on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Bill D. Hicks | 100.0 | 17,130 | |
| Total votes: 17,130 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Montoya in this election.
2020
See also: Municipal elections in El Paso County, Texas (2020)
General election
The general election was canceled. Yvonne Rosales won election in the general election for El Paso County District Attorney.
Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for El Paso County District Attorney
Yvonne Rosales defeated James Montoya in the Democratic primary runoff for El Paso County District Attorney on July 14, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Yvonne Rosales | 51.9 | 16,454 |
| James Montoya | 48.1 | 15,249 | ||
| Total votes: 31,703 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for El Paso County District Attorney
Yvonne Rosales and James Montoya advanced to a runoff. They defeated Karen Dykes and Roger Montoya in the Democratic primary for El Paso County District Attorney on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Yvonne Rosales | 38.6 | 24,655 |
| ✔ | James Montoya | 34.0 | 21,741 | |
| Karen Dykes | 18.0 | 11,521 | ||
| Roger Montoya | 9.4 | 6,002 | ||
| Total votes: 63,919 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
James Montoya did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
James Montoya did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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