\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated March 4, 2:27 a.m. <\/p>\n
Brittany Black won the race to be the Democratic candidate for the District 61 race with 8,764 votes, or 56.08% of votes cast, according to unofficial vote totals. She ran against Jackie Bescherer, who had 6,863 votes, or 43.92% of votes cast.<\/p>\n
Black will appear again on the November ballot against the winner of the Republican primary, which features incumbent Keresa Richardson and candidate Frederick Frazier.<\/p>\n
All results are unofficial until canvassed. Visit communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\/election-results<\/a> to see results from all local elections in your community.<\/p>\n Updated March 3, 11:05 p.m. <\/p>\n Collin County has released updated voting totals showing Brittany Black is still in the lead to be the Democratic candidate for the District 61 race with 6,488 votes, or 55.12% of votes cast.<\/p>\n Black is running against challenger Jackie Bescherer, who has received 5,282 votes, or 44.88% of votes cast, according to Collin County voting results.<\/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 communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\/election-results<\/a> to see results from all local elections in your community.<\/p>\n Updated March 3, 9:45 p.m.<\/p>\n Collin County has released updated voting totals showing Brittany Black is still in the lead to be the Democratic candidate for the District 61 race with 6,131 votes, or 55.02% of votes cast.<\/p>\n Black is running against challenger Jackie Bescherer, who has received 5,013 votes, or 44.98% of votes cast, according to Collin County voting results.<\/p>\n Posted March 3, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Brittany Black is leading the race for the Democratic bid in the Texas House, District 61 election, according to early voting results from Collin County.<\/p>\n What you need to know<\/p>\n Collin County has released early voting totals showing Brittany Black is in the lead to be the Democratic candidate for District 61 with 5,980 votes, or 54.74% of early votes cast.<\/p>\n Black is running against challenger Jackie Bescherer, who has received 4,944 early votes, or 45.26% of early votes cast.<\/p>\n The winner will appear again on the November ballot against the winner of the Republican primary, which features incumbent Keresa Richardson and candidate Frederick Frazier.<\/p>\n Cities the district represents include McKinney, Frisco and Celina.<\/p>\n The context<\/p>\n Nearly 10% Collin County’s 752,502 registered voters<\/a> cast a ballot in the primary election during early voting, according to the Texas Secretary of State\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n 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, 2:27 a.m. Brittany Black won the race to be the Democratic candidate for the District…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75461,75465,22663,1604,102,104,103,75459,75460,75462,75464,75463],"class_list":["post-189918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brittany-black","tag-brittany-black-voting-results","tag-collin-county-election-results","tag-community-impact","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-democratic-primary-2026","tag-district-61-election-results","tag-jackie-bescherer","tag-jackie-bescherer-collin-county","tag-jackie-bescherer-votes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189918","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=189918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}