The District 97 seat in Fort Worth for state representative has been a pretty safe seat for Republicans for the last few years, but that may be changing. There was a special election to fill that seat yesterday, and the Democrat, Dan Barrett, did very well.
Barrett was facing opposition from 6 Republican candidates in the election, and he led the field garnering about 32% of the vote. Here are the results:
Dan Barrett..........32%
Mark Shelton..........23%
Bob Leonard..........19%
Craig Goldman..........17%
Chris Hatch, Jeff Humber and James Schull all received less than 6%
There will now be a runoff between Barrett and Shelton. Now it comes down to which party can turn out the votes in the runoff. Traditionally, even less people will vote in the runoff than voted yesterday in the election. I believe the Democrats have a chance to take this seat. The Democrats are energized and I believe they will turn out in good numbers for the runoff.
It won't be easy though. We can expect Craddick to put some money in to support Shelton now. Barrett was the only candidate in the race who was not a Craddick supporter, and if he is elected it would be one more step toward a new Speaker of the House.
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