By Ballotpedia’s Congressional and State legislative teams

Besides picking presidential nominations, Texas voters selected primary winners in congressional and state legislative primaries.

At least eight incumbents were defeated — seven state legislative and one U.S. House member. Because Texas has runoffs — the top two candidate vote-getters advance to a July 31 runoff if no candidate received 50 percent — there will be several more incumbents still facing primary challenges.

Here’s a recap of what happened.

Congress

U.S. Senate

United States Senate elections in Texas, 2012

In the race for the open U.S. Senate seat, both the Democratic and Republican primaries must be decided by a primary runoff election. In the Democratic primary Paul Sadler and Grady Yarbrough will advance to the runoff. Ted Cruz andLieutenant Governor David Dewhurst will advance to the Republican primary runoff election.

U.S. House

United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, 2012

Texas’ congressional races saw few surprises, as most incumbents won their primary battles handily. However, one incumbent did lose his primary battle in the U.S. House.

Incumbent Silvestre Reyes was defeated by Beto O’Rourke in District 16. O’Rourke just barely acquired the 50% of the vote required to avoid a primary runoff, while incumbent Reyes received roughly 44% of votes. Reyes was one of two Democratic incumbents who had been targeted by the Super PAC Campaign for Primary Accountability. The other was District 30 incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson, who easily won her primary.^[1]

Primary runoffs will be needed to decide the nominee in many of the primaries contests featuring more than two candidates. Eleven primary races have resulted in the need for a runoff election, 6 Democratic and 5 Republican races.

State legislature

Six Senate incumbents faced a primary challenge. All six successfully dispatched their primary opponent.

In the House, 45 incumbents faced a primary challenge. Seven incumbents were defeated in Tuesday’s primary.

• District 6: Republican Matt Schaefer defeated Leo Berman.
• District 9: Republican Chris Paddie (R) defeated Wayne Christian.
• District 15: Republican Steve Toth defeated Rob Eissler .
• District 19: Incumbent James White (R) defeated Mike Hamilton.
• District 57: Republican Trent Ashby defeated Marva Beck.
• District 93: Republican Matt Krause defeated Barbara Nash.
• District 98: Republican Giovanni Capriglione defeated Vicki Truitt.

In addition, many of the races in which there were more than two candidates will result in a July 31 primary runoff election:^[2]

Senate

 District 25: Incumbent Jeff Wentworth and Donna Campbell

House

 District 11: Incumbent Chuck Hopson and Travis Clardy
 District 12: Tucker Anderson and Kyle J. Kacal
 District 23: Wayne Faircloth and W.M. Wallace
 District 24: Greg Bonnen and Ryan Sitton
 District 26: Jacquie Chaumette and Rick Miller
 District 40: Agustin Hernandez, Jr. and Terry Canales
 District 43: Incumbent J.M. Lozano and Bill T. Willson, II
 District 59: Incumbent Sid Miller and J.D. Sheffield
 District 67: Jon Cole and Jeff Leach
 District 68: Trent McKnight and Drew Springer
 District 89: Incumbent Jim Landtroop and Ken King
 District 91: Stephanie Klick and Ken Sapp
 District 95: Nicole Collier and Dulani Masimini
 District 114: Bill Keffer and Jason Villalba
 District 115: Steve Nguyen and Bennett Ratliff
 District 117: Philip Cortez and Tina Torres
 District 137: Joseph Carlos Madden and Gene Wu