{"id":189769,"date":"2026-03-04T08:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189769\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:33:12","slug":"incumbent-chris-hill-wins-collin-county-judge-republican-primary-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189769\/","title":{"rendered":"Incumbent Chris Hill wins Collin County judge Republican primary race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated March 4, 2:20 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Chris Hill has won the Republican bid for the Collin County judge race, according to unofficial voting results from Collin County.<\/p>\n<p>Hill received 67,155 votes, or 78.31% of votes cast. Opponent Rick Grady received 18,601 votes, or 21.69% of votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>In the November general election, Hill will face John R. Buster Brown, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary race.<\/p>\n<p>All results are unofficial until canvassed. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\/election-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\/election-results<\/a> to see results from all local elections in your community.<\/p>\n<p>Updated March 4, 12:05 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hill continues to lead in the race to be the Republican candidate in the Collin County judge election, according to Collin College voting results.<\/p>\n<p>With 60 of 86 vote centers reporting, Hill has received 59,408 votes, which totals 78.95% of votes cast. Votes cast for opponent Rick Grady total 15,841, or 21.05% of votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next<\/p>\n<p>Community Impact will update this article as more election day vote totals are released. All results are unofficial until canvassed.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\/election-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\/election-results<\/a> to see results from all local elections in your community.<\/p>\n<p>Updated March 3, 10:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hill is holding the lead in the race to be the Republican candidate in the Collin County judge election, according to Collin College voting results.<\/p>\n<p>With 18 of 86 vote centers reporting, Hill has received 50,415 votes, which totals 79.3% of votes cast. Votes cast for opponent Rick Grady total 13,163, or 20.7% of votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>Posted March 3, 7:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Chris Hill is leading the race for the Republican bid in the Collin County judge election, according to early voting results from Collin County.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Collin County has released early voting totals showing Hill is in the lead to be the Republican candidate for Collin County Judge. Hill is running against challenger Rick Grady.<\/p>\n<p>Hill is in the lead with 47,508 votes, or 79.45% of votes cast. Grady has earned 12,291 early votes, or 20.55% of votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will appear again on the November ballot against John R. Buster Brown, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary race.<\/p>\n<p>The context<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 10% of <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/mckinney\/election\/2026\/03\/02\/collin-county-voters-cast-over-72k-primaries-ballots-during-early-voting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collin County&#8217;s 752,502 registered voters<\/a> cast a ballot in the primary election during early voting, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.state.tx.us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Secretary of State\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting for the 2026 primary election started Feb. 17 and ended Feb. 27 across the state, and unofficial results show 72,657 ballots were cast in-person or by mail, totaling about 9.66% of registered Collin County voters, ahead of the March 3 primary elections.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated March 4, 2:20 a.m. Incumbent Chris Hill has won the Republican bid for the Collin County judge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[56273,960,56270,75418,75419,712,1247,160,162,161,56274],"class_list":["post-189769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-chris-hill","tag-collin-county","tag-collin-county-judge","tag-collin-county-judge-primary","tag-collin-county-judge-republican-primary","tag-dallas-fort-worth","tag-mckinney","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-rick-grady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189769","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=189769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}