A crowd waits for last remaining precincts totals to be announced
Donna Williams wins County Clerk Race
A small group of about 24 people gathered outside of the Uvalde Leader-News offices at about 7:00 PM. Early votes and mail-in ballots were the first to be posted providing an indication of where each race stood. As the time progressed to almost 9 PM the crowd grew to approximately 50 to 70 people.
Uvalde County Judge Bill Mitchell was reelected for another term as Uvalde County Judge won with 4664 votes to Republican challenger Patrick McGrew’s 3182 votes.
Another closely watched race was the Uvalde County Clerk’s race between Republican Donna Williams and Democratic incumbent candidate Valarie Del Toro Romero. With early votes and mail-in ballots already posted, Williams trailed Romero by approximately 80 votes but as the precinct results came in Williams ended up winning the race with 4221 votes to Romero’s 3664 votes.
County Commissioner of Precinct 2 incumbent Mariano Pargas won reelection with 584 votes against write-in candidates Julio Valdez with 440 votes and Javier Cazares with 205 votes and Dianna-Olvedo Karau with 57 votes.
Ronald “Ronnie” Garza won reelection to the Uvalde County Commissioners Precinct 4 seat with 1067 votes to Challenger Jose Suarez with 889 votes.
Other winners include Neto Luna with 916 votes winning the Justice of the Peace Precinct 6 race against Robert Moss with 603 votes.
Steven Kennedy was the winner of the race for Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 with 2138 votes to his challenger Tina Ann Quintanilla-Taylor, a write-in candidate who collected 140 votes.
In the Knippa School Board Race, Nyland Falkenberg with 226 votes defeated challenger Sindy Ortiz who had 70 votes.
For the second contested Knippa ISD school board seat, Ted Sanderlin won reelection with 176 votes to candidate Justin Lands who had 123 votes.
Donna Williams waits for election results outside of the Uvalde County Courthouse near the Uvalde Leader-News election board
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