Analysis: Republicans gain ground but still fall short in Harris County
A campaign worker greeting voters Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, at Acres Homes Multi-Service Center in Houston.Typically a low-profile affair, this year’s county judge race unfolded into one of Texas’ marquee election battles.
The conditions in Harris County’s high-profile races appeared to boost Republicans in down-ballot judicial contests, five of which swung in favor of the GOP. Through unofficial results, Democrats appeared to lose control of two criminal district courts and three county misdemeanor courts, marking the party’s first countywide defeats in eight years.Republicans also held a number of Democratic judicial candidates under 51 percent, far narrower results than their recent courthouse sweeps.
"We are light years from where we were four years ago. Light years," state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, said to a crowd at the Harris County Republican Party's election night watch party. Atop the ballot, Democrat Beto O’Rourke carried Harris County over Republican Gov. Greg Abbott by about 9 percentage points — far less than his 17-point margin over U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018.
That year, O’Rourke helped usher in a wave of Democratic wins in down-ballot county races. Under less favorable conditions atop the ticket this year, Democrats running for administrative countywide offices still narrowly retained the seats they had first captured four years ago.on Harris County Commissioners Court for the first time since 1990, gaining a 3-2 edge when Hidalgo defeated Republican incumbent Ed Emmett and Garcia unseated Morman in Precinct 2.
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