Unofficial results for the Cameron County March 3 Primary elections show Republican incumbent Donald J. Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders leading for the presidential nominee race in their respective parties.
Trump was ahead in the Republican presidential nominee race with 7,620 votes while Sanders had garnered 10,470 votes for the Democratic Party.
“We saw at least 13 or 14 thousand people come back out for the Democratic side, which is following our trend of where more and more people are participating in early voting,” said Remi Garza, Cameron County elections administrator. “We’re happy that people came in and that people heard our advice to go out early. … It’s looking like this is an average presidential election for the Democratic Party as well as the Republican Party.”
As of 10:33 p.m., Sanders was leading in Texas with 156,635 votes with 79% of counties reporting. Joe Biden had 153,066 votes and Michael Bloomberg, 106,559 votes.
Statewide, in the Republican primary, Trump was leading his GOP challengers with 1,013,077 votes.
FEDERAL RACES
Also in the Democratic presidential nominee race, Michael R. Bloomberg had 6,355 votes; Joseph R. Biden, 7,508; Elizabeth Warren, 1,947; and Pete Buttigieg, 1,154.
In the Republican presidential nominee race, Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente Guerra had 98 votes; Bill Weld, 75; and Joe Walsh, 67. Uncommitted votes tallied to 288.
In the Democratic U.S. Senator race, Cristina Tzintzun Ramirez was leading with 5,766; Annie “Mamá” Garcia came in second with 4,517 votes; Mary “MJ” Hegar, 3,897; Sema Hernandez, 3,083; Adrian Ocegueda, 1,950; Michael Cooper, 1,844; Chris Bell, 1,524; Amanda K. Edwards, 1,542; Victor Hugo Harris, 1,379; Royce West, 843; Jack Daniel Foster Jr., 841; and D. R. Hunter, 392.
In the Republican U.S. Senator race, incumbent John Cornyn outpaced his opponents with 5,102 votes; John Anthony Castro tallied 1,399 votes; Dwayne Stovall, 726; Mark Yancey, 533; and Virgil Bierschwale, 84.
Filemon B. Vela easily defeated his opponents in the U.S. Representative race for District 34 with 23,678 votes. Diego Zavala accumulated 5,301 votes while Osbert Rodriguez Haro III received 1,992.
On the Republican side, Rey Gonzalez defeated Rod Lingsch with 4,772 votes to 2,756 in the U.S. Representative District 34 race.
STATE RACES
Roberto R. “Beto” Alonzo led the Democratic Railroad Commissioner race with 11,849 votes; Chrysta Castañeda had 9,267 votes; Kelly Stone, 3,691; and Mark Watson, 3,558.
On the Republican side of the same race, James “Jim” Wright triumphed over Ryan Sitton with 5,096 votes to 2,369.
Amy Clark Meachum won the Democratic Chief Justice Supreme Court race with 19,161 votes. Jerry Zimmerer received 7,997 votes.
Nathan Hecht ran unopposed in the Republican Chief Justice Supreme Court race and amassed 6,720 votes.
In the Democratic Justice, Supreme Court Place 6 race, Kathy Cheng led with 17,830 votes, followed by Larry Praeger’s 9,119.
On the Republican side in the same race, Jane Bland ran unopposed and tallied 6,607 votes.
Staci Williams defeated Brandy Voss in the Justice Supreme Court Place 7 race with 17,624 votes to 9,203.
Jeff Boyd ran unopposed on the Republican side of that race with 6,661 votes.
Gisela D. Triana led the Democratic Justice Supreme Court Place 8 race with 20,376 votes. Peter Kelly received 6,575 votes.
Republican Brett Busby ran unopposed in the same race and tallied 6,522 votes.
In the Democratic Judge Court of Criminal Appeals Place 3 race, Elizabeth Davis Frizell defeated her opponents with 16,788 votes. Dan Wood received 7,048 votes and William Pieratt Demond 3,107.
On the Republican side of that race, Bert Richardson led with 3,649 votes followed by Gina Parker with 3,515.
Leading the Democratic Judge Court of Criminal Appeals Place 4 race was Tina Clinton with 18,618 votes compared to Steven Miears’ 7,961.
On the Republican side of that race, Kevin Patrick Yeary ran unopposed and garnered 6,497 votes.
Brandon Birmingham also ran unopposed in the Democratic Judge Court of Criminal Appeals Place 9 race. Birmingham received 20,560 votes and will challenge Republican David Newell, who ran also unopposed and received 6,557 votes.
In the Democratic State Senator District 27 race, incumbent Eddie Lucio Jr., who has been in office since 1991, led with 15,917 votes followed by Sara Stapleton with 11,632 votes and Ruben Cortez with 4,982.
Lucio Jr. and Stapleton will head into a primary runoff election. Republican Vanessa Tijerina, who tallied 6,499 votes and ran unopposed in her party, will challenge the winner of the runoff election.
Oscar Longoria ran unopposed in the Democratic State Representative District 35 race and amassed 3,636 votes. The race saw no Republican candidates.
Incumbent Alex Dominguez, who has been in office since 2018, led with 6,061 votes in the Democratic State Representative District 37 race. Amber Medina received 5,721 votes. The race saw no Republican candidates.
In the Democratic State Representative District 38 race, incumbent Eddie Lucio III, who has been in office since 2007, led with 7,865 votes, compared to by Erin Gamez’s 6,737. There were no Republican candidates in the race.
Erasmo Castro, who ran unopposed in the Republican State Representative District 38 race, received 2,291 votes and will challenge Lucio III.
Migdalia Lopez was the only Democratic candidate running in the Justice 13th Court of Appraisals District, Place 4 and garnered 25,154 votes. Lopez will face Republican Jaime Tijerina, who was also the only candidate for his party. Tijerina amassed 6,558 votes.
Nereida Lopez-Singleterry won the Justice 13th Court of Appraisals District, Place 6 race with 23,360 votes. Lopez-Singleterry ran unopposed.
Clarissa Silva also ran unopposed and won the same race on the Republican side with 6,518 votes.
In the Democratic District Judge race for the 138th Judicial District, Gabriela “Gabby” Garcia led with 14,572 votes, followed by Helen Delgadillo’s 9,422 and Myles R. Garza’s 6,362.
Ricardo M. Adobbati led the Democratic District Judge race for the 404th Judicial District with 17,595 votes. Louis Sorola tallied 12,209 votes.
Incumbent David A. Sanchez, who ran unopposed, received 24,031 votes to win the Democratic District Judge race for the 444th Judicial District.
Incumbent Gloria M. Rincones also ran unopposed in the Democratic District Judge race for the 445th Judicial District. Rincones tallied 24,038 votes.
COUNTY RACES
The Cameron County Sheriff’s race saw Democrat incumbent Omar Lucio, who has been in office since 1997, lead with 13,951 votes with challenger Eric Garza on his tail with 13,238 votes. Michael R. Galvan received 5,136 votes.
John Chambers was the only Republican candidate in that race. Chambers tallied 6,520 votes.
Laura Perez-Reyes defeated Diego Alonzo Hernandez in the Democratic District Clerk race with 19,358 votes to 9,721.
Republican Mirla Veronica Deaton, who received 6,480 votes, will challenge Perez-Reyes.
In the Democratic County Commissioner Precinct 1 race, incumbent Sofia C. Benavides led with 4,576 votes. Donald “Don” Clupper amassed 1,668 votes.
Incumbent Linda Salazar, who has been in office since 2005, was ahead in the Democratic Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 race with 8,257 votes. Cyndi Hinojosa came in second with 5,680 votes while Fred Arias received 2,389.
Janie Jaimez led in the Democratic Justice of the Peace Precinct 5 Place 3 with 3,403 votes while incumbent Mike Trejo, who has been in office since 2013, had 3,212 votes.
On the Republican side of that race, Charles “Chuck” Vieh was the only candidate and gathered 2,358 votes.
Democrat incumbent Daniel Holland, who ran unopposed, will face off against Republican Norman Esquivel Jr. in the Constable Precinct 1 race.
Incumbent Abelardo “Abel” Gomez Jr. defeated Silverio “Silver” Cisneros in the Democratic Constable Precinct 2 race with 10,147 votes to 5,292.
Incumbent Adrian Gonzalez led in the Democratic Constable Precinct 3 race with 2,335 votes, followed by Roel Cavazos, who received 1,645.
Incumbent Eddie Solis won the Democratic Constable Precinct 5 race with 3,233 votes. Fred Peña garnered 1,099 votes; Johnny Ramirez, 1,035; Javier “JJ” Gutierrez, 739; and Don Duncan, 718.
Jared Hockema is the only Democrat running in the County Chairman race and had 20,733 votes.
On the Republican side of that race, sole candidate is Morgan Graham received 6,503 votes.
Lucila Davila Leal led in the Democratic Precinct Chair race for Precinct 4 with 431 votes. Robert Gracia tallied 235 votes.
J.J. Ballenger led in the Republican Precinct Chair race for Precinct 44 with 124 votes, followed by Rick Bilbie with 120.
In the Democratic Precinct Chair race for Precinct 67, Marianella “Mane” Bodden defeated Maria Galasso with 231 votes to 183.
Beatriz Zapata led in the Democratic Precinct Chair race for Precinct 83 with 121 votes compared to Edna Garcia Goette’s 79.
Candidates who ran unopposed in their respective races were:
–Sheila Garcia Bence, 23,634 votes in the Democratic Judge County Court at Law No. 4 race
–Estela Chavez-Vasquez, 23,791 votes in the Democratic Judge County Court at Law No. 5 race
–Luis V. Saenz, 24,346 votes in the Democratic County Attorney race
–Antonio “Tony” Yzaguirre Jr., 21,933 votes in the Democratic County Tax Assessor-Collector race
–Incumbent David A. Garza, 5,451 votes in the Democratic County Commissioner Precinct 3 race
–Incumbent Dora “Sallie” Gonzalez, 5,334 votes in the Justice of the Peace Precinct 5 Place 1 race
–and Incumbent Merced Burnias Jr., 1,675 votes in the Democratic Constable Precinct 4 race.
