The Early Vote is in and Laura Morrison won it 60/40 but the margin is only 2,000 votes. While it's unexpected that the dynamic of the race changed much from this Tuesday to today's election day- low turnout could always result in surprises. BOR is not projecting a win at this time until the first E-Day results are released.
Results from Travis County Elections
FINAL 207 of 207 Precincts Reporting
EVote EVote% EDay EDay% TOTAL TOTAL%
Laura Morrison 6,064 60.19% 7,767 69.73% 13,831 65.20%
Cid Galindo 4,010 39.81% 3,371 30.27% 7,381 34.80%
7:25- A couple of notes as I look at the precinct by precinct votes. The perfect storm of a) it being a runoff, b) a June election, and c) a Saturday election is clearly shown in that there are only 5 total early votes cast in the University of Texas campus box. Morrison won Pct. 148 3-2 (actual votes). Morrison won the other low turnout West Campus boxes... Pct 277 was 75%-25% (16 total voters) and my home Pct 266 was 70%-30% (60 total voters).
8:20- The first 10% of Election Day precincts have reported. Morrison's margin widened from 20 points in early vote to 50 points on election day.
Based upon this and commentary from the campaigns, Burnt Orange Report is calling the race for Laura Morrsion. We will continue to update the results as they come in.
8:45- Over half reporting now and Morrison continues to rack up the election day margin.
8:50- More regular updates coming out now with another 25 precinct reporting, this time, even more favorably for Morrison.
9:00- Cid Galindo managed to win both of the votes cast the University of Texas campus precinct today. As a result, he has reversed Morrison's 1-vote lead there and won the UT Campus by a 4-3 vote.
9:05- Cid Galindo has conceded and is talking to his supporters. I have to personally say that I did appreciate him running. At some point I'd like to go back to school and do my master's work in urban studies and geography (my undergrad minor) so I have a real appreciate for the perspective he brought to the table in this race.
10:05- Final report is in. Morrison wins 65-35 with almost exactly 5% total turnout for the election for a grand total of 21,212 votes cast. |
