Jace Yarbrough emerged from a nine-person race to finish atop the GOP primary for the newly-drawn U.S. House District 32 but still has work to do after falling just short of the required 50% plus 1 threshold – forcing a runoff in May.
Yarbrough finished with 33,812 votes (49.0%), far outpacing his runoff opponent Ryan Binkley who garnered 15,000 votes (21.7%). Paul Bondar was third with 9,569 votes (13.9%), followed by Darrell Day with 4,023 votes (5.8%), James Ussery with 1,956 votes (2.8%), Aimee Carrasco with 1,832 (2.7%), Gordon Heslop with 1,462 (2.1%), Monty Montanez with 867 (1.3%) and Abteen Vaziri with 541 (0.8%).
The winner of the GOP runoff will face Democrat Dan Barrios, who defeated Anthony Bridges in their primary on Tuesday. Barrios finished with 30,124 votes (60%) to Bridges’ 20,093 (40%).
In other area U.S. House district primaries, Keith Self will move on to face Democrat Evan Hunt in November’s general election for District 3. Self easily dispatched Mark Newgent, capturing 63,443 votes (80.2%) to 15,691 (19.8%). Hunt was unopposed in the Democratic primary.
In U.S. House District 3, Pat Fallon beat challenger Don Horn by a 59,618 (80.6%) to 14,330 (19.4%) in the GOP primary while Jason Pearce defeated Andrew L. Rubell on the Democratic side of the ballot. Pearce earned 23,475 (52%) to Rubell’s 21,692 (48%).
In the race for State Senate District 2, incumbent Bob Hall cruised to an easy win in the GOP primary over Jason Eddington. Hall collected 62,448 votes (78.7%) to Eddington’s 16,908 (21.3%). Hall will face Democrat Keenen Colbert who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.