Among the twenty-two challenged Republican Texas House
incumbents, six challengers won outright, and one challenger—former Dallas City
Councilmember Linda Koop, forced incumbent Stefani Carter into a runoff on May 27th.
The average percentage of the vote for the winning challengers was 53; the
average winning percentage of the vote for incumbents was 66.6. Among the
winning incumbents, only Myra Crownover and Angie Chen Button received less than 55 percent of the vote. Among
the winning challengers, only Tony Tinderholt won more than 55 percent of the vote. Travis Clady garnered the highest
percentage of the vote among winning incumbents, receiving 84 percent of the
vote.
The table below provides the particulars:
District
|
Incumbent
|
% Vote
|
Challenger
|
% Vote
|
|
1
|
George Lavender
|
45.7%
|
Gary VanDeaver
|
54.3%
|
|
4
|
Lance Gooden
|
49.0%
|
Stuart Spitzer
|
51.0%
|
|
6
|
Matt Schaeffer
|
61.1%
|
Skip Ogle
|
38.9%
|
|
8
|
Byron Cook
|
58.6%
|
Bobby Vickery
|
35.0%
|
|
11
|
Travis Clardy
|
84.0%
|
Tony Sevilla
|
16.0%
|
|
12
|
Kyle Kacal
|
76.3%
|
Timothy Delasandro
|
23.7%
|
|
18
|
John Otto
|
61.8%
|
Terry Holcomb
|
38.2%
|
|
55
|
Ralph Sheffield
|
46.3%
|
Molly S. White
|
53.7%
|
|
59
|
J.D. Sheffield
|
60.9%
|
Danny Pelton
|
31.1%
|
|
Howard Ray
|
7.9%
|
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60
|
Jim Keffer
|
56.3%
|
Cullen Crisp
|
43.7%
|
|
64
|
Myra Crownover
|
54.9%
|
Read King
|
45.1%
|
|
71
|
Susan King
|
67.3%
|
Issac M. Castro
|
32.7%
|
|
72
|
Drew Darby
|
79.5%
|
Shannon Thomason
|
20.5%
|
|
83
|
Charles Perry
|
73.0%
|
Steve Massengale
|
27.0%
|
|
92
|
Jonathan Strickland
|
65.0%
|
Andy Cargile
|
35.0%
|
|
94
|
Diane Patrick
|
44.6%
|
Tony Tinderholt
|
55.4%
|
|
102
|
Stefani Carter
|
33.2%
|
Adryana Boyle
|
4.7%
|
|
Sam Brown
|
27.5%
|
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Linda Koop
|
34.7%
|
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105
|
Linda Harper Brown
|
47.3%
|
Rodney Anderson
|
52.7%
|
|
112
|
Angie Chen Button
|
54.0%
|
Jared Patterson
|
46.0%
|
|
115
|
Bennett Ratliff
|
49.4%
|
Matt Rinaldi
|
50.6%
|
|
134
|
Sarah Davis
|
71.0%
|
Bonnie Parker
|
29.0%
|
|
150
|
Debbie Riddle
|
74.9%
|
Tony Noun
|
25.1%
|
|
Legend:
Winners are in Bold
Runoff participants are in Bold Italics
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