Bexar County Election Results
Media Report Bexar County,Tx
Joint,General, Special & Bond
November 7,2006
Run Date:11/08/06 12:54 AM
Early Election
PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 622). . . . . 622 100.00
REGISTERED VOTERS - TOTAL . . . . . 897,653
BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL. . . . . . . 276,700
134,211cast early 142,489 cast on election day
VOTER TURNOUT - TOTAL . . . . . . 30.82
Less than 31 percent of voters in Bexar county had their voices heard.
48.5% voted early. That is a pretty interesting stat. You can find the rest of the results at the above link.
Voters in Bexar County voting straight democrat party outnumbered those who voted straight republican by 6,868. There is some interesting information in that.
Henry Bonilla appears to be headed for a run-off in December but that isn’t official yet.
Carol Patterson will be filling the Edwards Aquifer District 1 chair with 67% of the vote
Byron Miller will be filling District 2 with just 45% of the vote. Annalisa Peace took home 41% and lost by only 385 votes.
The District 7 seat will be filled by Enrique Valdivia who took home 56% of the vote.
Rick Agosto took the District 3 State Board of Education seat with 60% of the vote. I have to wonder what was in the mind of the 40% who voted for a candidate that gave out no information about himself.
Well, TechDigger and I had a long night last night running from precinct to precinct, we didn’t plan terribly well so only have stats from a few BUT we have decided that next election day we will make it an all day affair with a planned route. It was very enlightening as we chose to go to Democratic precincts and found some interesting results. I am sure we will both be blogging about it soon.
I just have to say here that pundits make me queasy. Listening to Ken Mehlman last night talking about how he so looks forward to working with the Democrats because they are good people and so are the Republicans. Give me a break, he didn’t come up with that lovely observation until after the house was lost. The GOP has been stomping all over the Democratic party for years calling them irrational folks that don’t want to protect you or yours. It just makes me ill watching them. I suppose it is about time to turn off the tv.
Interesting trivia from yesterday.
USATODAY.com - Electionline
‘Firsts’ accomplished — and missed
• Democrat Deval Patrick becomes Massachusetts’ first black governor. USA TODAY, the Boston Globe and The Boston Herald all say history was made with his election. (Photo: Patrick and his wife Diane celebrate his victory. By Chitose Suzuki, AP.)• Democrat Rep. Harold Ford Jr. missed making history as the first black senator from the south since Reconstruction. Our Gannett colleagues at The Tennessean have more about that.
• Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is now in line to be the first female speaker of the House.
• Minnesota state Rep. Keith Ellison, a Democrat, is the first Muslim to be elected to the House. The Star Tribune has this profile of him.
• Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., was elected to a record ninth consecutive term. The Charleston Gazette has more about that.
Filed under: 2006 general election, Annalisa Peace, Bonilla, Byron Miller, Carol Patterson, EAA, Edwards Aquifer Authority, Ken Mehlman, November 7th, Rick Agosto, San Antonio, State Board of Education, bexar county, democrat, election, politics, republican, texas, texas politics, vote, voting precinct
