Ellis Defeats Patterson in Smith County’s GOP Primary

TYLER � Smith County voters in the GOP primary runoff have elected Jason Ellis as judge of the County Court at Law. Since he has no Democratic opponent in November, he will be succeeding Thomas Dunn in January. In complete, but unofficial returns Ellis polled 6, 337 votes to Mike Patterson�s 3.821 votes.

In other voting in the Smith County GOP runoff:
Lieutenant Governor
Dan Patrick 6,978
David Dewhurst 3,132

Attorney General
Dan Branch 3,025
Ken Paxton 6,882

Commissioner of Agriculture
Sid Miller 5,013
Tommy Merritt 4,646

Railroad Commissioner
Ray Sitton 3,998
Wayne Christian 5,456

Democratic Primary
United States Senator
David M. Alameel 261
Resha Rogers 126

Commissioner of Agriculture
Jim Hogan 228
Richard �Kinky� Friedman 154