Montgomery County Republican Party

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Munch & Mingle at Headquarters Prior to Meeting

Sponsored by County Judge Candidate Craig Doyal  

The twenty-sixth biennial Montgomery County Republican Party Primary election was hampered by a winter ice storm that descended on Montgomery County on March 4^th. There were multiple power outages across the County and ice covered roads that undoubtedly depressed the voter turnout. "Some polling locations had no voters until almost noon, negating the usual heavy early morning turnout", County Chairman Dr. Wally Wilkerson said. "I was anticipating an election-day turnout of 25,000 voters". A total of 43,510 voters cast ballots in the Primary, 25,238 during early voting period and 18,182 on election-day that included 21 provisional ballots counted by the Ballot Board. No problems were reported with the Voter ID rule. "The Party is deeply indebted to every election worker for   the conduct of the Primary under unusual conditions", Wilkerson added.

The most votes cast for all candidates in any race on the ballot were 42,454 for Lt. Governor. The second most votes cast were 42,251 for Governor. The candidate who received the most votes in a contested race was Attorney General Greg Abbott for Governor. He received 39,595 votes. Congressman Kevin Brady received the second most votes in a contested race with 26,851 votes. The unopposed candidate with most votes was County Clerk Mark Turnbull with 31,602 votes. District Clerk Barbara Gladden Adamick received the second most votes in an unopposed race with 31,514 votes.

With results of the General Primary, the Party will have four statewide offices on the May 27^th Runoff Primary ballot; Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Railroad Commissioner and Agriculture Commissioner; one County office, County Judge; one District Office, State House District #16; and two Precinct offices, County Commissioner Precinct #2 and Precinct #4. All eighty-nine polling locations will be open for this important election on election-day. Voters qualified to vote by mail ballot during the early voting period, will automatically receive a mail ballot provided they checked both the Primary and Runoff Primary boxes on the mail ballot application.

• Helps maintain marketing and all services of the County Headquarters
• Helps finance purchase of materials, supplies, equipment and major services
• Helps maintain computerized voter list of Get-Out-the-Vote program
• Helps strengthen and expand our Precinct and neighborhood organization
• Helps expand outreach program to minorities and independents