{"id":190487,"date":"2026-03-04T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/190487\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:52:15","slug":"final-shelby-williams-wins-collin-county-commissioner-primary-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/190487\/","title":{"rendered":"FINAL: Shelby Williams wins Collin County commissioner primary race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated 2:20 a.m., March 4<\/p>\n<p>Shelby Williams will be the Collin County Commissioner Precinct 4 Republican nominee, according to unofficial Collin County voting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collincountytx.gov\/Elections\/ElectionResults\/March%203,%202026%20Election%20Night%20Summary%20Report--Unofficial%20Final.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With all vote centers reporting, Williams has received 10,974 votes, defeating Woody Huffines in the Republican primary race. Huffines has received 10,788 votes, according to unofficial county voting results.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will appear again on the November ballot against Julie Holmer, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary race.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing<\/p>\n<p>All results are unofficial until canvassed. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide<\/a> to see results from all local and state elections in your community.<\/p>\n<p>Updated 10:10 p.m., March 3<\/p>\n<p>With 18 of 86 vote centers reporting, Shelby Williams continues to lead in the March 3 Collin County Commissioner Precinct 4 Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has received 8,803 votes, leading Woody Huffines in the Republican primary race. Huffines has received 8,116 votes, according to unofficial Collin County voting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collincountytx.gov\/Elections\/ElectionResults\/March%203,%202026%20Primary%20Election%20Night%20Summary%20Reportv2.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">results<\/a>.<\/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=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">communityimpact.com\/voter-guide<\/a> to see results from all local and state elections in your community.<\/p>\n<p>Posted 7:05 p.m. March 3<\/p>\n<p>Early voting results show Shelby Williams leading in the March 3 Collin County Commissioner Precinct 4 Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know <\/p>\n<p>Shelby Williams has received 8,509 votes, leading Woody Huffines in the Republican primary race. Huffines has received 7,721 votes, according to early voting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collincountytx.gov\/Elections\/ElectionResults\/March%203,%202026%20Primary%20Election%20Early%20Voting%20Summary%20Report.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">totals<\/a> from Collin County.<\/p>\n<p>Zooming out<\/p>\n<p>In early voting, there were 72,657 <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\">ballots cast<\/a> in Collin County, which represents nearly 9.66% of Collin County&#8217;s 752,502 registered voters. Similarly, more than 15% of Denton County <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/denton\/election\/2026\/03\/02\/more-than-15-of-denton-county-residents-vote-early-in-2026-primary-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">residents<\/a> voted early for the March 3 primary election.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated 2:20 a.m., March 4 Shelby Williams will be the Collin County Commissioner Precinct 4 Republican nominee, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[75369,22662,75367,22663,75366,160,162,161,37621,18651,75368],"class_list":["post-190487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-collin-county-commissioners-court-precinct-4","tag-collin-county-election","tag-collin-county-election-day","tag-collin-county-election-results","tag-collin-county-precinct-4","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-republican-primary","tag-shelby-williams","tag-woody-huffines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190487","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=190487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}