Gober projected to win open 10th District House seat as Schwertner leads Senate District 5

Republican Chris Gober is projected to win the 10th Congressional District, the U.S. House seat that includes Bryan and College Station, while Republican state Sen. Charles Schwertner held a lead early Wednesday in his bid to keep the Senate District 5 seat.

10th Congressional District

Statewide unofficial results from the Texas Secretary of State showed:

Chris Gober (R): 161,425 (53.76%)
Caitlin Rourk (D): 138,832 (46.24%)

NBC News projected Gober the winner, estimating that 99% of the vote was in and roughly 2,300 ballots remained. Neither candidate is an incumbent, according to NBC's results data.

Brazos County was much closer than the district as a whole. The state's county breakdown, with all 78 Brazos precincts reporting, had Gober at 40,105 votes (50.56%) and Rourk at 39,218 (49.44%), a gap of 887.

Senate District 5

Charles Schwertner (R, incumbent): 197,912 (53.30%)
Paul Thomasson (D): 173,380 (46.70%)

Schwertner led by 24,532 votes in the Secretary of State's count, with 253 of the state's 254 counties reporting. No winner had been projected in the results read for this story. In Brazos County, Schwertner had 39,458 votes (51.59%) to Thomasson's 37,025 (48.41%).

House District 12

Rep. Trey Wharton, a Republican whose district takes in part of Brazos County, won reelection over Democrat Andie Ho, 51,069 votes to 21,621, or about 70% to 30%, the state results show. Brazos voters in the district gave Wharton 9,027 votes (65.86%) to Ho's 4,679.

All of these figures are unofficial. Brazos County's elections administrator has said the county expects to finish resolving provisional ballots ahead of its canvass on Tuesday, Nov. 10. Texas counties then report their canvassed totals to the state.

Sources

goelect.txelections.civixapps.com

nbcnews.com

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