Taylor Rehmet secures Texas Senate District 9 race. State Rep. David Cook to represent District 22 – Fort Worth Report

Taylor Rehmet secures Texas Senate District 9 race. State Rep. David Cook to represent District 22  Fort Worth Report

Incumbent Rehmet had 51% of the vote in the second race for District 9 since January. Cook led with 56% of the vote. Editor’s note: This article was updated at 9:20 a.m. Nov. 4 with unofficial voting results. Democratic incumbent Taylor Rehmet secured another term against his opponent, Republican Leigh Wambsganss, in the Nov. 3 election for Texas Senate District 9. Unofficials voting totals show Rehmet earned 51%, or 175,288 votes. Wambsganss trailed at 49%, or 166,711 votes. Meanwhile, state Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield, topped the race for Texas Senate District 22 against Democrat Amy Martinez-Salas. Cook took the seat with 56% of the vote, according to unofficial results. Martinez-Salas earned 44% of the 333,044 ballots.

✨ Getting the full story takes timeIt also takes all of us. It's only possible with your support. In Tarrant County, Cook earned 64% of the vote, or 69,311 votes. A total of 106,700 Tarrant County ballots were cast in the District 22 election. District 22 encompasses Central Texas and parts of North Texas, including Tarrant County from Euless south to Mansfield. Of the five Texas Senate districts that encompass Tarrant County, only Districts 9 and 22 were on the Nov. 3 ballot. Rehmet took office in February after winning the special runoff election against Wambsganss. The election was called after Republican Kelly Hancock