RESULTS FOR 2024 GENERAL ELECTION – AREA COUNTIES

Josh Blaschke November 6, 2024

Election Results for November 5, 2024 General Election (Area Counties; EARLY VOTING)

State Representative District 17 (total across five counties)

Stan Gerdes (Rep, incumbent) – 53,424
Desiree Venable (Dem) – 27,248

Burleson County

Stan Gerdes (Rep, incumbent) – 7,485
Desiree Venable (Dem) – 1,624

Lee County

Stan Gerdes (Rep, incumbent) – 6,552
Desiree Venable (Dem) – 1,575

Bastrop County

Stan Gerdes (Rep, incumbent) – 22,430
Desiree Venable (Dem) – 15,435

Caldwell County

Stan Gerdes (Rep, incumbent) – 8,444
Desiree Venable (Dem) – 6,382

Milam County

Stan Gerdes (Rep, incumbent) – 8,543
Desiree Venable (Dem) – 2,232

Austin County (Early Voting + Election Day)

Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace (unexpired term of Republican Wilfred Krause)

Todd Morris (Rep, incumbent) – 1,858
Wesley O’Brien Peschel (Ind) – 2,325

Sealy ISD Proposition A – Tax Rate Ratification (ratifying the ad valorem tax rate of $1.0281 per $100 valuation, a rate that will result in an increase of 19.3 percent in maintenance and operations tax revenue for the district for the current year as compared to the preceding year, which is an additional $2,350,724)

For – 2,635
Against – 3,500

Fayette County

Round Top-Carmine ISD Proposition A – Tax Rate Ratification (ratifying the ad valorem tax rate for maintenance and operations of $0.6969 per $100 valuation, a rate that will result in an increase of 2.8 percent in maintenance and operations tax revenue for the district for the current year as compared to the preceding year, which is an additional $178,366)

For – 963
Against – 310

Grimes County

Precinct 3 Commissioner

Michael Raska (Rep) – 1,557
Barbara Walker (Dem, incumbent) – 936

Anderson-Shiro CISD Proposition A – Bond Election (the issuance of $60,000,000 of bonds for the design of a new elementary campus and renovation of the current elementary campus to accommodate junior-high grade levels)

For – 1,306
Against – 1,297

Waller County

Tax Assessor-Collector

Carolyn Miedke (Rep) – 17,246
Rebecca Richard (Dem) – 9,063

Precinct 1 Commissioner

John Allen Amsler (Rep, incumbent) – 3,846
Lee Jones Jr. (Dem) – 1,667

Precinct 3 Commissioner

Brent Davis (Rep) – 2,818
Kendric D. Jones (Dem, incumbent) – 4,063

Precinct 1 Constable

Justin Lane (Rep) – 3,853
Gerald Robinson (Dem) – 1,697

Precinct 3 Constable

Marvin Hood (Rep) – 2,831
Herschel Smith (Dem, incumbent) – 4,018

Waller ISD Proposition A – Bond Election (the issuance of $702,500,000 for the construction of two new elementary schools, a new junior high school and a new high school, along with the purchase of the necessary sites for school buildings and new school buses)

For – 6,364
Against – 5,031

Waller ISD Proposition B – Bond Election (the issuance of $11,000,000 for the acquisition, installation and updating of technology equipment in the district)