{"id":751418,"date":"2018-11-06T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T01:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=751418"},"modified":"2018-11-07T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T05:03:00","slug":"smith-county-election-returns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=751418","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Election Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>SMITH COUNTY — Complete and unoffiical returns:<\/p>\n

Congressman Louie Gohmert has defeated two opponents, receiving over 70% of the vote. He has been elected to his 8th term.
\nIndependent Candidate Neal Katz has conceded in his race to unseat Republican State Representative Matt Schaefer.
\nAlso reelected were County Judge Nathaniel Moran, Precinct 2 County Commissioner Cary Nix and Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace James Meredith.<\/p>\n

73 of 73 Precincts Reporting and Early Returns
\nSmith County
\nUnited States Senator
\nTed Cruz 53,542
\nBeto O’Rourke 23,036
\nNeal M. Dikeman 453<\/p>\n

United State Representative, District 1
\nLouie Gohmert 53,760
\nShirley Mckellar 21,468
\nJeff Callaway 1,282<\/p>\n

Governor
\nGregg Abbott 55,475
\nLupe Valdez 20,487
\nMark Ray Tippetts 896<\/p>\n

Lieutenant Governor
\nDan Patrick 52,623
\nMike Collier 22,535
\nKerry Douglas McKennon 1,356<\/p>\n

Attorney General
\nKen Paxton 52,681
\nJustin Nelson 22,242
\nMichael Ray Harris 1,498<\/p>\n

Comptroller of Public Accounts
\nGlenn Hegar 53,628
\nJoi Chevalier 20,486
\nBen Sanders 1,800<\/p>\n

Commissioner of the General Land Office
\nGeorge P. Bush 53,032
\nMiguel Suazo 20,592
\nMatt Pina 2,362<\/p>\n

Commissioner of Agriculture
\nSid Miller 52,685
\nKim Olson 21,7311
\nRichard Carpenter 1,453<\/p>\n

Railroad Commissioner
\nChristi Craddick 53,586
\nRoman McAllen 20,692
\nMike Wright 1,733<\/p>\n

Justice, Supreme Court, Place 2
\nJimmy Blacklock 53,989
\nSteven Kirkland 21,836<\/p>\n

Justice, Supreme Court, Place 4
\nJohn Devine 54,086
\nR.K. Sandill 21,630<\/p>\n

Justice Supreme Court, Place 6
\nJeff Brown 53,909
\nKathy Cheng 21,779<\/p>\n

Presiding Judge Court of Criminal Appeals
\nSharon Keller 53,172
\nMaria T. Jackson 21,015
\nWilliam Bryan Strange III 1,392<\/p>\n

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 7
\nBarbara Parker Hervey 53,923
\nRamona Franklin 21,370<\/p>\n

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 8
\nMichelle Slaughter 55,282
\nMark Ash 8,638<\/p>\n

State Representtaive, District 5
\nCole Hefner 15,051
\nBill Liebbe 4,067<\/p>\n

State Representative, Distrct 6
\nMatt Schaefer 37,056
\nNeal Katz 11,929<\/p>\n

County Judge
\nNathaniel Moran 54,459
\nMichael K Mast 21,047<\/p>\n

County Commissioner Prect 2
\nCary Nix 15,534
\nRandolph Scott 4,047<\/p>\n

Justice of the Peace Pct 3
\nJames Meredith 15,844
\nDustin Stephens 4,308<\/p>\n

Single Member District , 2, ESD 1
\nLouie Brown 497
\nNathan Berry 301<\/p>\n

Single Member District , 3, ESD 1
\nCarolyn Todd 404
\nMatthew Fernwick 104\t<\/p>\n

Whitehouse Proposition A
\nFor 1,988
\nAgainst 443<\/p>\n

Lindale School District Bond Election
\nProposition A
\nTHE ISSUANCE OF $32,410,000 OF
\nBONDS BY THE LINDALE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR SCHOOL FACILITIES AND THE LEVYING OF A TAX IN PAYMENT THEREOF
\nFor 5,617
\nAgainst 2,657<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SMITH COUNTY — Complete and unoffiical returns: Congressman Louie Gohmert has defeated two opponents, receiving over 70% of the vote. He has been elected to his 8th term. Independent Candidate Neal Katz has conceded in his race to unseat Republican State Representative Matt Schaefer. Also reelected were County Judge Nathaniel Moran, Precinct 2 County Commissioner … Continue reading Smith County Election Returns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":693189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 13:45:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751418"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751524,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751418\/revisions\/751524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/693189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}