Abbott Cleans Up in Rural and Suburban Texas
Texans didn’t have to wait long to see the result Tuesday night for the gubernatorial race as Fox News called it for Greg Abbott less than an hour and a half after polls closed.
Abbott nearly hit 55 percent in his victory over Beto O’Rourke, amounting to an 11-point and 891,000-vote margin. Turnout in the race settled in at 45.6 percent, between the 2018 midterm rate of 53 percent and the 2014 rate of 33 percent.
O’Rourke won only 19 of Texas’ 254 counties and underperformed compared to his 2018 race in every county except Kaufman.
Below are some other breakdowns of the gubernatorial results.
By Method
Early Vote
- Abbott: 54%, 475,227-vote margin
- O’Rourke: 45%
Election Day
- Abbott: 55%, 412,719-vote margin
- O’Rourke: 40%
Highest-Performing Counties (minimum 10,000 registered voters)
- Abbott: Callahan County, 90.6%
- O’Rourke: Travis County, 72.6%
Most Competitive County
- Williamson County: 0.62%, 1,386 vote margin
By Population Cluster
Top 5 Counties
- O’Rourke: +16.6%, 548,140 vote margin
Middle Group
- Abbott: +24.2%, 963,611 vote margin
Low Population (fewer than 30,000 registered voters)
- Abbott +61%, 473,806 vote margin
Cost Per Vote (as of 8-day filing)
- Abbott: $23.40
- O’Rourke: $20.75
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Brad Johnson
Brad Johnson is a senior reporter for The Texan and an Ohio native who graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2017. He is an avid sports fan who most enjoys watching his favorite teams continue their title drought throughout his cognizant lifetime. In his free time, you may find Brad quoting Monty Python productions and trying to calculate the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.
