In Port Arthur and Beaumont’s Jefferson County, which have among the highest concentration of Black voters in the state, Crockett wracked up huge margins of victory. She also maintained a wide margin in her home county of Dallas.
But Talarico kept it close in Houston and the rest of Harris County, and then went on to take most of the rest of the state. In South Texas, for instance, he won big among Latino voters in Hidalgo and Cameron counties. And he performed well in Austin and its surrounding counties, and again in Abilene, Amarillo, El Paso and Midland.
For Cornyn and Paxton, the geography of votes was not quite so clear cut.
Cornyn not only took all the major cities, winning by double-digit margins in Austin and Dallas, but he won also won a large swath of rural Texas stretching from the panhandle to the Rio Grande Valley. In Hidalgo County, he won by a single-digit margin, whereas he won by double digits in Abilene’s Taylor County.
Paxton managed to keep it close in Houston and San Antonio, while also winning big in much of the East Texas and West Texas countryside.
He also did well in conservative suburbs, like Parker County outside Fort Worth and Montgomery County north of Houston.