{"id":667618,"date":"2026-05-27T07:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667618\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:33:15","slug":"unofficial-results-how-smith-county-voted-in-republican-democratic-primary-runoff-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667618\/","title":{"rendered":"UNOFFICIAL RESULTS: How Smith County voted in Republican, Democratic primary runoff races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              UNOFFICIAL RESULTS: How Smith County voted in Republican, Democratic primary runoff races<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 9:45 pm Tuesday, May 26, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Note: This story includes final but unofficial results from Smith County. This story includes results about how Smith County voted, but please note these are statewide and federal races and a winner will be determined from the total of votes across the state and respective district. Also, check tylerpaper.com for definitive results of statewide races.<\/p>\n<p>Results are in for how Smith County voted in the statewide Republican and Democratic Primary Runoff elections on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Multiple statewide runoff races were on today\u2019s ballot. U.S. Senator, Attorney General, Railroad Commissioner and Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3, Judge were on the Republican ticket. The Democratic ballot included runoff races for U.S. Representative, District 1, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p>COMPLETE BUT UNOFFICIAL RESULTS<\/p>\n<p>The following results reported by Smith County at 9:40 p.m. include all early voting totals, absentee ballots and Election Day ballots. These results are complete for the night but considered unofficial until they are canvassed. Please not these races are not determined by Smith County\u2019s results alone and represent only how Smith County citizens voted in these races.<\/p>\n<p>REPUBLICAN PRIMARY RUNOFF<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Senator\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Cornyn 6,584 votes or 37.64%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tEmail newsletter signup &#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tylerpaper.com\/services\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n<img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Newletter_signUp_Small.png\" alt=\"Newsletter SignUp\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken Paxton 10,908 votes or 62.36%<\/p>\n<p>**Paxton has been declared as the Republican nominee in this statewide race. <a href=\"https:\/\/tylerpaper.com\/2026\/05\/26\/ken-paxton-defeats-john-cornyn-for-u-s-senate-gop-nomination\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Attorney General<\/p>\n<p>Mayes Middleton 9,453 votes or 54.69%<\/p>\n<p>Chip Roy 7,831 votes or 45.31%<\/p>\n<p>**Mayes Middleton has been declared the Republican nominee in this statewide race. <a href=\"https:\/\/tylerpaper.com\/2026\/05\/26\/mayes-middleton-defeats-chip-roy-for-texas-attorney-general-gop-nomination\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Railroad Commissioner<\/p>\n<p>Jim Wright 9,018 votes or 54.92%<\/p>\n<p>Bo French 7,402 votes or 45.08%<\/p>\n<p>Judge Criminal Appeals Place 3<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Smith 10,228 votes or 67.30%<\/p>\n<p>Alison Fox 4,969 votes or 32.70%<\/p>\n<p>**Thomas Smith has been declared the Republican nominee in this race. <a href=\"https:\/\/tylerpaper.com\/2026\/05\/26\/paxton-backed-thomas-smith-defeats-alison-fox-in-gop-runoff-for-texas-highest-criminal-court\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RUNOFF<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Representative, District 1<\/p>\n<p>Dax Alexander 713 votes or 32.48%<\/p>\n<p>Yolanda Price 1,482 votes or 67.52%<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Governor<\/p>\n<p>Marcos Isaias Velez 503 votes or 22.98%<\/p>\n<p>Vikki Goodwin 1,686 votes or 77.02%<\/p>\n<p>**Vikki Goodwin declared as Democratic nominee. <a href=\"https:\/\/tylerpaper.com\/2026\/05\/26\/vikki-goodwin-defeats-houston-union-leader-in-lieutenant-governor-democratic-runoff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Attorney General<\/p>\n<p>Joe Jaworski 1,041 votes or 47.82%<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Johnson 1,136 votes or 52.18%<\/p>\n<p>What was on the ballot?<\/p>\n<p>On the Republican Party ballot, Smith County residents joined other Texans to choose between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton for United States senator Republican nominee. On the state level, they voted for or either Chip Roy or Mayes Middleton for attorney general nominee; Jim Wright or Bo French for railroad commissioner nominee; and Thomas Smith or Alison Fox for Republican judge nominee on the court of criminal appeals for Place 3.<\/p>\n<p>On the Democratic Party ballot, Smith County voters joined others in Texas\u2019 First Congressional District to choose between Dax Alexander or Yolanda Prince as the Democratic nominee for United States representative. The winner will challenge incumbent U.S. Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Tyler) in November.<\/p>\n<p>On the state level, Democratic voters cast a vote for either Marcos Isaias Velez or Vikki Goodwin for lieutenant governor nominee. In the Texas attorney general race, Democratic voters were choosing from Joe Jaworksi or Nathan Johnson to become their nominee in November.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the primary runoff will earn a place on the ballot in the November general election.<\/p>\n<p>Voters who voted in the primary were required to vote on the same ticket they cast a ballot on in March. So if a resident voted Republican in the March primary, they voted on the Republican ballot again for the runoff election, and vice versa for those who voted Democrat in March. Registered voters who did not vote in March were able to cast a vote on either ballot but not both.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Tyler mayoral runoff is not on the ballot. That election is set for June 13, with early voting beginning June 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNOFFICIAL RESULTS: How Smith County voted in Republican, Democratic primary runoff races Published 9:45 pm Tuesday, May 26,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-667618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}