Posted Nov. 3, 9:32 p.m.
Dallas County has released early voting totals for several midterm races, including Texas House, Texas Senate and U.S. Congress contests. Some races cover additional counties, and all results are unofficial until canvassed.
What you need to know
Republican incumbent Beth Van Duyne is currently in the lead for the US House of Representatives, District 24 with 134,945 votes or 52.1%, according to early voting results. Democrat Kevin Burge has 123,974 votes or 47.9%.
Republican Kason Huddleston currently leads the race for State Board of Education District 9 with 292,876 votes and 56.4% of the vote. Democrat Ericka Ledferd has received 43.6% of the vote, or 226,311 votes.
The District 9 seat is currently held by Republican Keven Ellis, who did not seek reelection.
Republican Mindy Bumgarner is ahead for State Board of Education District 14 with 306,681 votes, representing 54.8% of the vote. Democrat Amy Taylor has received 252,675 votes, or 45.2%.
The District 14 seat is currently held by Republican Evelyn Brooks, who is not running for reelection this year.
Democratic challenger Keenen Colbert is currently ahead in the race for Texas Senate District 2 with 50.6% and 136,048 votes. Republican incumbent Bob Hall, who has held the seat since 2015, has received 133,052 votes, representing 49.4% of the vote.
Texas Senate District 2 covers parts of Richardson, Garland, Dallas, Mesquite and Rowlett, as well as areas of east and central Texas.
Republican incumbent Katrina Pierson is leading the race for Texas House District 33 with 41,379 votes, or 55.4% of the total vote. Democratic challenger Orlando Lopez has received 33,379 votes or 44.6%.
Texas House District 33’s representative serves residents in all of Rockwall and parts of Plano, Richardson, Murphy, Sachse, Wylie, Heath, Fate, McLendon-Chisholm, Rowlett and Dallas.
Democratic incumbent Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos currently leads the race for State Representative District 102 with 25,271 votes and 70.3% of the total vote. Republican challenger Bonnie Abadie has received 10,662 votes, or 29.7%.
Rodriguez Ramos has held the seat since 2019 in the district that covers parts of Richardson, Garland and Dallas.
Democratic challenger Zach Herbert is leading longtime Republican incumbent Angie Chen Button in the race for Texas House District 112. Herbert has received 36,246 votes, or 55.2% of the total vote. Button has received 29,415 votes and 44.8%.
Button has represented District 112 , which primarily covers parts of Richardson, Garland, Sachse, Rowlett and Sunnyvale, since 2009.
What else
More than 42% of Dallas County’s over 1.49 million registered voters cast their ballots in early and mail-in voting, as of Nov. 2.
Over 607,000 voters cast their ballots in Dallas County during early voting, according to initial totals from the county. As of Oct. 30, Dallas County had also received 20,050 mail-in ballots.
Stay tuned
Community Impact will update this article as more election day vote totals are released. All results are unofficial until canvassed.
Visit https://communityimpact.com/voter-guide to see results from all contested local and state elections in your community.
