Police officer faces former Austin councilmember in race for Texas House District 19

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Republican main runoff election for the newly-drawn Texas Home District 19 pits an Austin police officer towards a former Austin Metropolis councilmember. The winner of the runoff would be the favourite to win the seat in November common election.

Austin Police officer Justin Berry superior to the runoff within the race. In 2019, Berry ran for the District 47 seat within the Texas Home. He narrowly misplaced to incumbent Democrat Vikki Goodwin.

Berry faces Ellen Troxclair, a former Austin Metropolis Councilmember, within the runoff. After leaving Metropolis Corridor in 2018, Troxclair labored as a Senior Fellow for the Texas Public Coverage Basis.

See election outcomes on this race beneath beginning at 7 p.m.

Berry is certainly one of 19 APD officers beneath indictment over 2020 racial injustice protests. He calls the indictment “frivolous.”

District 19 is at present held by Republican State Rep. James White. He’s not operating for re-election. White as a substitute ran within the GOP main for Commissioner of Agriculture, dropping to incumbent Sid Miller.

However the brand new district boundaries, drawn in the course of the 2021 redistricting course of, are far completely different from the realm White at present represents. The previous boundaries put the district in east Texas. The brand new map places the district within the Hill Nation. It now covers Burnet, Blanco, Gillespie and Kendall counties, together with a portion of western Travis County.

The winner of the Republican runoff will face Democrat Pam Baggett in November. She was unopposed within the March main.

District 19 is drawn to favor a Republican, so the winner of the Might 24 GOP runoff would be the favourite to win the seat in November.