Along with statewide races like Texas Attorney General, Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor and Republican nominees for railroad commissioner and U.S. Senate, Republican voters in Lubbock County had several county and district races head into runoffs after the March primary election.
More than 24,000 Lubbock County voters cast ballots between early voting and Election Day in the May 2026 Texas’ joint primary runoff elections, according to the Lubbock County Elections Office.
By comparison, more than 46,000 voters in Lubbock County cast ballots in the initial primary in March.
After the seven-candidate race for the Republican nominee for Texas’ Congressional District 19, which spans from north of Lubbock down to Abilene, Tom Sell and Abraham Enriquez went on to compete in the runoff.
The runoff was won by Sell, a Lubbock businessman and agriculture lobbyist who served former District 19 Congressman Larry Combest when he chaired the U.S. House Agriculture Committee.
In the initial primary race, Sell received more than 40% of votes, while Enriquez received 18.75%. And in the May 26 runoff, Sell earned more than 64% of GOP votes in the district.
Sell will go on to face the uncontested Democratic candidate Kyle Rable in November.
Several other races on the Republican ballot did not have candidates on the Democratic side, so the winner of the primary nomination will be uncontested come the general election.
This includes Lubbock County Commissioner Precincts 2 and 4.
In Precinct 2, Kevin Pounds managed to earn the nomination with 60% percent of votes.
Incumbent Precinct 4 commissioner Jordan Rackler won his race against former commissioner Chad Seay, with nearly 63% percent of votes.
Other Republican races include Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3 – which was won by Alison Fox – and Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3 – for which Traci Baxa held a narrow lead of just over 100 votes as of Wednesday morning.