Texas judicial election recap, 2012
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November 15, 2012
Texas: The Texas "Official List of Registered Voters" reached a record number of registered voters this year. October 9, 2012 was the last day to register to vote in the November 6, 2012 general election and the list of registered voters was the highest Texas has ever had at 13,646,226. The previous record of registered voters was at 13,575,062 and that was for the November 2008 General Election.[1]
Secretary of State Hope Andrade was proud of her Texans, saying, "I want to thank all Texans who registered to vote this year and all Texans who are already registered voters. The next step is getting to the polls during Early Voting or on Election Day."[1]Texans did just that, deciding races all across the state.
Of the 19 total candidates running for election to the Texas Supreme Court, 5 judges were re-elected. One judge, Judge David Medina, was not re-elected. He was defeated by candidate John Devine.
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At the Appellate level, most judges were re-elected. There were only 6 judges that were not re-elected and 11 new judges who were elected to office.
On the District Court side of things, 136 unopposed judges were re-elected, 158 judges were re-elected and 32 new judges were elected. Of the 263 total candidates running for election, only 12 judges were not re-elected.
Many of the Texas District Court races were decided pretty handily given the vote percentage, but many races were within 2 to 1 percent of each other and many were even closer than that.
One race in particular, the Texas District 386, was so incredibly close, each candidate garnered 50% of the vote. However Laura Parker was declared the winner, as her number of votes totaled 249,191, compared to Stephen D. Smith's 244,331 votes.[2]
Other very close races of mention included:
Texas District 125 and Texas District 333, where the deciding difference for candidates was only .2% of the vote.
In Texas District 179 and Texas District 338, it was another close race, the deciding difference only .4% of the vote.
.6% of the votes was the deciding difference for candidates in Texas District 127 and Texas District 334.
The race for Harris County Civil Court-at-Law, No. 1. was another nail-biter as both candidates, Debra Ibarra Mayfield and Erica Graham each garnered 50% of the votes. Mayfield had a higher number of votes at 562,225, whereas Graham only had 558,174 of the votes.[3]
Overall, it was great turnout for the elections in Texas this year. For more information on this year's judicial elections in Texas, please see: Texas judicial elections, 2012 and Texas judicial elections, 2012 - District Courts.
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