State Legislature Special Election Megathread v2

[Mr.Phips]

Good god.  And Flores only barely made to the runoff too.  Otherwise this would have been two Democrats.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

RACE   NAME      PARTY   EARLY VOTES   PERCENT   TOTAL VOTES   PERCENT
State Senator, District 19               
Peter P. (Pete) Flores   REP   12,521   51.69%   12,737   52.12%
Pete Gallego   DEM   11,700   48.30%   11,700   47.87%
-----------      -----------   
Race Total      24,221      24,437   
Precincts Reported      12   of   339 Precincts      3.54%

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

RACE   NAME      PARTY   EARLY VOTES   PERCENT   TOTAL VOTES   PERCENT
State Senator, District 19               
Peter P. (Pete) Flores   REP   12,728   51.95%   13,024   52.44%
Pete Gallego   DEM   11,771   48.04%   11,808   47.55%
-----------      -----------   
Race Total      24,499      24,832   
Precincts Reported      18   of   339 Precincts      5.31%

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

RACE   NAME      PARTY   EARLY VOTES   PERCENT   TOTAL VOTES   PERCENT
State Senator, District 19               
Peter P. (Pete) Flores   REP   12,999   52.35%   13,424   52.98%
Pete Gallego   DEM   11,828   47.64%   11,911   47.01%
-----------      -----------   
Race Total      24,827      25,335   
Precincts Reported      24   of   339 Precincts      7.08%

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

If Flores actually wins, then it means that Russians hacked the election totals to rig the results. No other rational explanation exists.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

RACE   NAME      PARTY   EARLY VOTES   PERCENT   TOTAL VOTES   PERCENT
State Senator, District 19               
Peter P. (Pete) Flores   REP   13,165   52.22%   15,437   51.57%
Pete Gallego   DEM   12,045   47.77%   14,493   48.42%
-----------      -----------   
Race Total      25,210      29,930   
Precincts Reported      110   of   339 Precincts      32.45%

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Gallego catching up:


RACE   NAME      PARTY   EARLY VOTES   PERCENT   TOTAL VOTES   PERCENT
State Senator, District 19               
Peter P. (Pete) Flores   REP   13,178   52.27%   15,387   51.14%
Pete Gallego   DEM   12,032   47.72%   14,698   48.85%
-----------      -----------   
Race Total      25,210      30,085   
Precincts Reported      119   of   339 Precincts      35.10%

[LimoLiberal]

No blue wave tonight.

https://twitter.com/TXElects/status/1042223807782703109

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

RACE   NAME      PARTY   EARLY VOTES   PERCENT   TOTAL VOTES   PERCENT
State Senator, District 19               
Peter P. (Pete) Flores   REP   13,178   52.27%   17,403   51.72%
Pete Gallego   DEM   12,032   47.72%   16,242   48.27%
-----------      -----------   
Race Total      25,210      33,645   
Precincts Reported      187   of   339 Precincts      55.16%

A bunch of the outstanding vote is in Bexar county, which favors Gallego, but still looks grim atm.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

RACE   NAME      PARTY   EARLY VOTES   PERCENT   TOTAL VOTES   PERCENT
State Senator, District 19               
Peter P. (Pete) Flores   REP   13,178   52.27%   17,637   51.13%
Pete Gallego   DEM   12,032   47.72%   16,851   48.86%
-----------      -----------   
Race Total      25,210      34,488   
Precincts Reported      201   of   339 Precincts      59.29%

[Ebsy]

Looking at what is left, I think Flores will pull out a narrow victory. Pretty disappointing performance from Gallego and the TX Dems here.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

It's over:


RACE   NAME      PARTY   EARLY VOTES   PERCENT   TOTAL VOTES   PERCENT
State Senator, District 19               
Peter P. (Pete) Flores   REP   13,528   52.39%   19,930   51.09%
Pete Gallego   DEM   12,292   47.60%   19,079   48.90%
-----------      -----------   
Race Total      25,820      39,009   
Precincts Reported      279   of   339 Precincts      82.30%

Big change from the D+19 Jungle Primary Result. Horrible sign for Nov. in TX-23 (federal).

[Ebsy]

I wouldn't read too much into it, it was a very low attention state senate runoff like a month and a half before November.

[CatoMinor]

Looking at what is left, I think Flores will pull out a narrow victory. Pretty disappointing performance from Gallego and the TX Dems here.

The TX Dems certainly had few breaks in this one. They were defending a seat vacated by scandal and their nominee was almost thrown off the ballot over his residency.

[CatoMinor]

Looks like the Texas Senate is 21R-10D

and if Abbot doesn't call for a special election right away for Garcia's seat, as he had hinted, the session will be 21R-9D

[CatoMinor]

What a joke. If Hispanics don’t want to turnout, they shouldn’t complain about the people representing them i guess. Hopefully Gallego never runs for anything again.

Is this seat up in 2020 or this fall?

2020

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

I feel very bad for Pete Gallego. He deserved much better in politics.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

RACE   NAME      PARTY   EARLY VOTES   PERCENT   TOTAL VOTES   PERCENT
State Senator, District 19               
Peter P. (Pete) Flores   REP   13,813   52.51%   23,576   52.99%
Pete Gallego   DEM   12,488   47.48%   20,911   47.00%
-----------      -----------   
Race Total      26,301      44,487   
Precincts Reported      339   of   339 Precincts      100.00%

[junior chįmp]

Yawn

https://mobile.twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1042225245049036800

Blue wave still imminent

[BBD]

Holy sh*t TX Dems just pissed away a safe seat. What an embarrassment.

[Yellowhammer]

If Flores actually wins, then it means that Russians hacked the election totals to rig the results. No other rational explanation exists.

Lol. Mother Russia was looking out for us tonight.

[Matty]

This is going to reinforce the twitter narrative that latino enthusiasm may be an issue

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Limo was right and y'all were wrong, deal with it.

[Zaybay]

Wasnt surprised by the D underpreformance, the Ds also underpreformed in minority based seats in GA and FL. What did surprise me is how much they underpreformed, almost 25 points!

This can mean two things:
A. Hurd is likely to overpreform results, and Latino turnout will be rather weak in 2018

B. This means nothing, as its just the typical drop in turnout in minority based seats when its not election day

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Limo was right and y'all were wrong, deal with it.

Wow. He just kept picking the Republican until one finally won. Wow. So impressive.