{"id":189566,"date":"2026-03-04T05:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189566\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:31:07","slug":"early-voting-results-show-incumbent-shea-morales-leading-in-travis-county-commissioners-court-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189566\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting results show incumbent Shea, Morales leading in Travis County Commissioners Court races"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIncumbent Brigid Shea and George Morales III are leading for precincts 2 and 4, respectively, on the Travis County Commissioners Court<\/a>, early voting results<\/a> show.<\/p>\n

What you need to know<\/p>\n

Two of the four seats on the Travis County Commissioners Court were on the ballot for county voters in the March 3 election. In the Democratic primary race, four candidates filed for Precinct 2, and four candidates ran for Precinct 4. No Republican candidates filed for either race.<\/p>\n

For Precinct 2<\/a>, Shea, who has served on the court since 2014, faced consultant and researcher Reese Ricci Armstrong and Rick Astray-Caneda III, a student organizer and nonprofit unionist, and Amanda Marzullo. According to early voting results, Shea is leading with 61.05% of the vote, or 19,791 votes, followed by Marzullo with 28.15% of the vote, or 9,126 votes. Astray-Caneda III has 5.83% of the vote with 1,890 votes while Armstrong has 4.96% of the vote, or 1,609 votes.<\/p>\n

For Precinct 4<\/a>, former Precinct 4 Chief of Staff Gavino Fernandez Jr. ran against Morales, a constable deputy, Susanna Ledesma-Woody, a project manager and Del Valle ISD trustee, and Ofelia Maldonado Zapata, who has a social justice ministry.<\/p>\n

Morales is leading with 40.17% of the vote, or 9,445 votes, followed by Ledesma-Woody with 35.18% of the vote, or 8,273 votes. Maldonado Zapata has 18.75% of the vote with 4,409 votes while Fernandez has 5.9% of the vote with 1,387 votes.<\/p>\n

No candidates filed in the Republican primary for either race.<\/p>\n

What else?<\/p>\n

The race for Travis County judge was uncontested. Current County Judge Andy Brown filed for reelection in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n

Something to note<\/p>\n

The release of early voting was delayed until around 9 p.m. The Travis County Republican Party<\/a> requested that all early voting ballots be counted on election day March 3 instead of after the early voting period ended Feb. 27, a Travis County spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

More than 500 voters were in line to cast their ballots at 7 p.m. when polls closed on election day, according to a post on X<\/a> from the Travis County Clerk<\/a>‘s office.<\/p>\n

Zooming out<\/p>\n

In Travis County, 172,292 ballots were cast during the early voting period from February 17-27, representing 18.73% of the county\u2019s eligible registered voters for the March 3 election, according to the Travis County data.<\/p>\n

Voting totals from election day on March 3 have not yet been released as polls were open until 7 p.m., or until those in line cast their vote.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n

Community Impact will update this article as more election day vote totals are released. All results are unofficial until canvassed.<\/p>\n

Visit https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide<\/a> to see results from all contested local and state elections in your community.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incumbent Brigid Shea and George Morales III are leading for precincts 2 and 4, respectively, on the Travis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,75387,133,75381,75382,75380,75379,75385,75386,75383,75384],"class_list":["post-189566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-local-election-results","tag-austin-news","tag-brigid-shea-election-results","tag-george-morales-iii-election-results","tag-march-3-travis-county-election","tag-travis-county-commissioners-court-election-results","tag-travis-county-democratic-primary","tag-travis-county-early-voting-results","tag-travis-county-precinct-2-race","tag-travis-county-precinct-4-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}