Campaign signs line the street across from the Hub in downtown Tyler.

It was election day in Texas on Tuesday, and voters headed to the polls to choose their Republican and Democratic nominees to face off in a number of races in November.

Results are considered unofficial until they are canvassed, which could take two weeks.

At the top of the ticket were the candidates running for president, where Joe Biden and Donald Trump overwhelmingly won their respective primaries. Down the ballot, Texans also weighed in on dozens of state and federal races, where the primary winner is often assumed to be the eventual winner because of noncompetitive matchups in November.

Of 157,173 registered voters in Smith County, just south of 23% voted in Tuesday’s election.

Here’s how Smith County voted in each of the federal and state races.

Republican Candidates

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Republican presidential candidates

• Asa Hutchinson 48 votes, or 0.16%
• Donald Trump 24,742 votes, or 81.12%
• Ron Desantis 582 votes, or 1.91%
• Vivek Rmaswamy 95 votes, or 0.31%
• David Stuckenberg 14 votes, or 0.05%
• Chris Christie 68 votes, or 0.22%
• Ryan Binkley 13 votes, or 0.04%
• Nikki Haley 4,348 votes, or 14.26%

U.S. Senator candidates

• R.E. Rufus Lopez 1,082 votes, or 3.72%
• Ted Cruz 27,139 votes, or 93.22%
• Holland Gibson 891 votes, or 3.06%

U.S. Representative District 1 candidate Nathaniel Moran was uncontested. He received 23,716 votes in Smith County.

STATE

Railroad Commissioner candidates

• Corley Howell 2,401 votes, or 9.72%
• Petra Reyes 584 votes, or 2.36%
• Christie Clark 3,694 votes, or 14.95%
• James Matlock 4,654 votes, or 18.84%
• Christi Craddick 13,372 votes, or 54.13%

Justice, Supreme Court, Place 2 candidate Jimmy Blacklock received 21,828 votes in Smith County.

Justice, Supreme Court, Place 4 candidates

• John Devine 12,889 votes, 56.12%
• Brain Walker 10,079 votes, 43.88%

Justice, Supreme Court, Place 6 candidate Jane Bland received 19,756 votes in Smith County.

Presiding Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals candidates

• David Schenick 16,192 votes, or 68.58%
• Sharon Keller 7,418 votes, or 31.42%
• Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7 candidates
• Gina Parker 17,071 votes, or 74.83%
• Barbara Parker Hervey 5,742 votes, or 25.17%

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8 candidates

• Lee Finley 11,775 votes, or 55.63%
• Michelle Slaughter 9,390 votes, or 44.37%

State Representative District 5 candidates

• Jeff Fletcher 1,856 votes, or 29.79%
• Cole Hefner 3,896 votes, or 62.54%
• Dewey Collier 478 votes, or 7.67%

State Representative District 6 candidate Daniel Alders was uncontested in the primary. In Smith County, he received 16,329 votes, or 100%. 

Justice, 12th Court of Appeals District, Place 3 candidate Greg Neeley was also uncontested. In Smith County, he received 20,888 votes, or 100%.

There were also 13 propositions on the Republican ballot. Each proposition is a yes or no vote. Here’s how Smith County voted on each of ballot propositions:

1. 80.17% voted Yes, 19.83% voted No “Texas should eliminate all property taxes without increasing Texans’ overall tax burden;”
2. 94.40% voted Yes, 5.60% voted No “Texas should create a Border Protection Unit, and deploy additional state law enforcement and military forces, to seal the border, to use physical force to prevent illegal entry and trafficking, and to deport illegal aliens to Mexico or to their nations of origin;”
3. 92.28% voted Yes, 7.72% voted No “The Texas Legislature should require the use of E-Verify by all employers in Texas to protect jobs for legal workers by preventing the hiring of illegal aliens.”
4. 90.86% voted Yes, 9.14% voted No “The Texas Legislature should end all subsidies and public services, including in-state college tuition and enrollment in public schools, for illegal aliens;”
5. 87.44% voted Yes, 12.56% voted No “Texas urges the United States Congress not to grant any form of amnesty or a pathway to legalization for illegal aliens;”
6. 87.47% voted Yes, 12.53% voted No “The Texas Legislature should prohibit the deployment of the Texas National Guard to a foreign conflict unless Congress first formally declares war;”
7. 80.90% voted Yes, 19.10% voted No “The Texas Legislature should establish authority within the Texas State Comptroller’s office to administer access to gold and silver through the Texas Bullion Depository for use as legal tender;”
8. 93.95% voted Yes, 6.05% voted No “The State of Texas should ensure that Texans are free to give or to withhold consent for any vaccine without coercion;”
9. 77.47% voted Yes, 22.53 voted No “The Republican Party of Texas should restrict voting in the Republican Primary to only registered Republicans;”
10. 92.81% voted Yes, 7.19% voted No “The Texas Constitution should be amended to restore authority to the Texas Attorney General to prosecute election crimes;”
11. 80.29% voted Yes, 19.71% voted No “Texas parents and guardians should have the right to select schools, whether public or private, for their children, and the funding should follow the student;”
12. 97.55% voted Yes, 2.45% voted No “The Texas Constitution should be amended to require proof of citizenship before any individual can be registered to vote;”
13. 96.7% voted Yes, 3.30% voted No “Texas should ban the sale of Texas land to citizens, governments, and entities from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.”

Statewide, nearly 78% voted yes for Proposition 1; almost 91% voted yes for Prop 2; nearly 90% voted in favor of Prop 3; almost 88% voted yes for Prop 4; 83% voted yes for Prop 5; 84% voted in favor of Prop 6; 76.5% voted in favor of Prop 7; 92% voted in favor of Prop 8; 73% voted yes for Prop 9; 89% voted in favor of Prop 10; 80% were in favor of Prop 11; 96% were in favor of Prop 12; and 95% voted yes for Prop 13, according to the Texas Secretary of State.

Democratic Candidates

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Presidential candidates

• Gabriel Cornejo 112 votes, or 2.14%
• Joseph Biden Jr 4,683 votes, or 89.39%
• Star Locke 37 votes, or 0.71%
• Dean Phillips 174 votes, or 3.32%
• Armando Perez-Serrato 36 votes, or 0.69%
• Marianne Williamson 144 votes, or 2.75%
• Frankie Lozada 14 votes, or 0.27%
• Cenk Uyagur 39 votes, or 0.74%

U.S. Senator candidates

• Carl Sherman 705 votes, or 14.14%
• Meri Gomez 380 votes, or 7.62%
• Heli Rodriguez Prilliman 135 votes, or 2.71%
• Colin Allred 2,579 votes, or 51.72%
• Roland Gutierrez 406 votes, or 8.14%
• A Robert Hassan 128 votes, or 2.57%
• Steven Keough 170 votes, or 3.41%
• Thierry Tchenko 79 votes, or 1.58%
• Mark Gonzalez 404 votes, 8.10%

STATE

Railroad Commissioners candidates

• Katherine Culbert 3,256 votes, or 68.90%
• Bill Burch 1,470 votes, or 31.10%

Justice, Supreme Court, Place 2 candidates

• DaSean Jones 3,281 votes, or 72.22%
• Randy Sarosdy 1,262 votes, or 27.78%

Justice, Supreme Court, Place 4 candidate Christine Vinh Weems, who faced no opposition in the primary, earned 4,134 votes in Smith County.

Justice, Supreme Court, Place 6 candidates

• Joe Pool 1,596 votes, or 34.89%
• Bonnie Lee Goldstein 2,978 votes, or 65.11%

Facing no opposition, the Democratic nominee for Presiding Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals is candidate Holly Taylor who received 4,195, 100% of the vote in Smith County.

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7 candidate Nancy Mulder, also facing no opposition in the primary, is the Democratic nominee with 4,173, 100% of the vote in Smith County.

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8 candidate Chika Anyiam, also with no opposition in the Democratic primary, earned the nomination and received 4,071 votes in Smith County.

State Representative District 6 candidate Cody Grace faced no Democratic challenger in the primary race. He received 3,499 votes in Smith County.