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State Bar judicial candidate poll results

By Don Cruse, Esq.

Earlier this week, the State Bar of Texas released the results of its member poll about judicial candidates.

The poll asked Texas attorneys to choose a preferred candidate from the entire field, regardless of party affiliation.¹ Although I list each candidate’s party affiliation below, the official bar poll results do not.

The envelope please…

Place 3

In this very crowded field, the plurality winner was Jim Sharp of Houston, the Democrat in the race. Close behind were Republicans Jeff Brown (also of Houston) and Rebecca Simmons (of San Antonio).

Jeff Brown (R)	1,834	19.2%
Rick Green (R)	519	5.4%
Debra Lehrmann (R)	1,181	12.4%
Jim Moseley (R)	1,143	12.0%
Jim Sharp (D)	1,897	19.9%
Rebecca Simmons (R)	1,781	18.7%
Rick Strange (R)	849	8.9%
William Bryan Strange, III (L)	328	3.4%

Focusing just on the voters who chose one of the Republican candidates, the two leaders were Brown with 25.1% and Simmons with 24.4%.

If none of the Republican candidates get a majority, the top two vote-getters will qualify for a runoff.

Place 5

This seat does not have a contested primary. The incumbent Justice Paul Green won a majority.

Paul Green (R)	4,309	51.0%
Bill Moody (D)	2,841	33.6%
Tom Oxford (L)	1,306	15.4%

Place 9

The plurality winner was the incumbent, Justice Eva Guzman. She is in a contested Republican primary with Justice Rose Vela of Corpus Christi.

Jack Armstrong (L)	1,117	12.2%
Blake Bailey (D)	2,301	25.2%
Eva Guzman (R)	4,097	44.8%
Rose Vela (R)	1,627	17.8%

Focusing just on the voters who chose one of those two Republicans, the breakdown was 71.6% for Guzman and 28.4% for Vela.

1. More than 13% of Texas attorneys participated.

Full post as published by Supreme Court of Texas Blog on February 26, 2010 (boomark / email).