May 30th, 2012
Election 2012: The Morning After cheat sheet

STAFF REPORT

• Pct. 3 Commissioner Will Conley and Sheriff Gary Cutler annihilated their Republican opponents and, since they have no Democratic Party opponent in November, they’re set for four more years. Conley won 2,604 votes (71.91 percent) to his opponent’s 1,017 (28.09 percent). Cutler cleared 65 percent of GOP primary participants with 6,111 votes (65.07 percent) to former Sheriff Tommy Ratliff’s 3,281 (34.93 percent). See Cutler story here and Conley story here.

TEXAS TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATION by TODD WISEMAN

• Former San Marcos Mayor Susan Narvaiz stayed above 50 percent and wins the GOP nomination for Congressional District 35 without a runoff. She won 6,034 votes (51.78 percent), including 992 in Hays County. San Marcos resident Rob Roark came in second with 3,450 (29.6 percent).

• That means Narvaiz will face U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett in the November general election after Doggett absolutely crushed his two challengers with 73.2 percent of the districtwide vote. In Hays County, Doggett fared even better with 88.66% of 1,764 votes cast in his race.

• In a second Hays County congressional district, CD-21, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith easily trounced his two GOP foes with 28,393 votes (78.7 percent). Richard Mack won 4,864 (13.48 percent) and Richard Morgan won 2,819 (7.81 percent).

• Two incumbent Democratic constables who faced primary opponents easily won their party’s nomination. In Pct. 1, David Peterson won 68.22% of 1,309 votes cast and, in Pct. 2, James Kohler won 70.1% of 786 votes cast. Both face Republican opponents in November.

• Former New Braunfels Mayor Bruce Boyer narrowly missed winning the GOP nomation (with 48.68%) for 22nd District Judge and is headed to a runoff with Buda resident David Glickler (who won 23.82%). Glickler won Hays and Caldwell counties but turnout in Comal was so intense that Boyer still almost skated to victory. San Marcos resident Ronnie Dickens won 3,441 votes districtwide, or 17.03 percent.

• State Sen. Jeff Wentworth dispatched former Railroad Commission Chair Elizabeth Ames Jones who came in last in a three-way race. Wentworth (who drew 35.8%) will face emergency room doctor Donna Campbell (who won 33.7%) in a July runoff. See story here.

» Download final, unofficial Hays County results here.