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Tom Delay surprises pollsters
Primary results
By Marilyn Clark, League City Area News Online
March 13, 2006
In the District 22 race for the U.S. House, Rep. Tom Delay, R., surprised pollsters by garnering 70 percent of the vote. His closest opponent, Tom Campbell, received 30 percent. Delay will square off with Nick Lampson, D., in the November election.
In the District 14 U.S. House race, incumbent Ron Paul, R., received 78 percent of the vote. He will be facing Shane Skyler, D., in the general election.
In the race for the U.S. Senate, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R., was unopposed. In the Democratic contest for U.S. Senate, Gene Kelly with 43 percent of the votes and Barbara Ann Radnofsky with 38 percent will battle it out one more time in the April runoffs.
In the gubernatorial race, incumbent Rick Perry, R., won 84 percent of the Republican vote and will be facing Chris Bell, D., who received 64 percent of the Democratic vote. Independents Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn and "Kinky" Friedman also plan to vie for the governor's post. Strayhorn and Friedman hope to gather the required number of signatures between the primary election and May 11.
In the race for Lieutenant Governor, incumbent David Dewhurst received 78 percent of the Republican vote. Maria Luisa Alvarado, D., and Adrian De Leon, D., will duke it out in the April Democratic primaries.
Atty. Gen. Greg Abbott, R., incumbent, was unopposed and will face David Van Os, D., also unopposed.
| Texas Primary 2006 on March 7, 2006 | ||||
March 9, 2006 at 02:07 p.m. - Texas Secretary
of State Unofficial Results |
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| - incumbent: bold text | ||||
| Office | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Senator | D | Barbara Ann Radnofsky | 191,524 | 38 |
| Dem-runoff | D | Gene Kelly | 215,556 | 43 |
| R | Kay Bailey Hutchison, incumbent | 626,732 | 100 | |
U.S. Rep. |
D | Shane Skler, unopposed |
2,785 | 100 |
| R | Ron Paul, incumbent (Secretary of State data) |
24,075 | 78 | |
| US. Rep. | D | Nick Lampson, unopposed | ||
| District 22 | R | Tom Campbell | 9,937 | 30 |
| R | Tom Delay, incumbent | 20,558 | 62 | |
| Governor | D | Chris Bell | 324,774 | 64 |
| R | Rick Perry, incumbent | 557,130 | 84 | |
| Lieutenant Governor | D | Maria Luisa Alvarado |
207,798 | 40 |
| Dem-runoff | D | Adrian De Leon | 113,638 | 22 |
| R | David Dewhurst, incumbent | 496,716 | 78 | |
| Attorney General | D | David Van Os | 414,592 | 100 |
| R | Greg Abbott, incumbent | 580,069 | 100 | |
D is for Democrat and R is for Republican.
Sources: Data is from the Offices of the Texas Secretary
of State and the Galveston County Clerk
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