Nearly 53% of registered Dallas County voters and 58% of registered Collin County voters took part in the Nov. 3 general election that will change leadership in Austin and send the first Democrat to the U.S. Senate since Sen. Lloyd Bentsen was elected in 1988.

According to complete, unofficial returns from Collin County Elections, local voters gave James Talarico a 55%-43% victory over Attorney General Ken Paxton, similar to his statewide margin.

In Dallas County, Talarico received 71.72% of the vote and Paxton received 26.28%.

Dallas County residents cast 791,657 ballots, including 21,040 by mail, 611,101 during early voting and 159,516 on Election Day, according to county records.

Collin County residents cast 460,900 ballots, including 9,433 by mail, 374,676 during early voting and 76,791 on Election Day, Collin County Elections reported.

In the governor’s race, Collin County voters favored Gina Hinojosa over Gov. Greg Abbott by more than 51% of the vote, and Hinojosa earned 68.76% of Dallas County votes compared with Abbott’s 29.53%.

In other top statewide races, Collin and Dallas county voters favored Vicki Goodwin over Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick; Nathan Johnson over Mayes Middleton for Attorney General; Sarah Eckhardt over Comptroller Don Huffines; Benjamin Flores over Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham; Clayton Tucker over Nate Sheets for Commissioner of Agriculture; and Jon Rosenthal over Bo French in the contest for Railroad Commissioner.

Democratic Rep. Colin Allred was reelected to the 33rd District with 78.43% of the vote, defeating Patrick David Gillespie.

Republican Rep. Keith Self was reelected to a third term in the 3rd District, even though he was narrowly outpolled in his home county of Collin by Democratic challenger Evan Hunt. Voters in Hunt, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Morris and Titus Counties gave Self an overall 169,243 to 151,667 edge, 52.70% to 47.30%.

Dallas County voters rejected Proposition A on Tuesday, turning down a proposed 2.4-cent increase in the county’s property tax rate per $100 of taxable value. The increase would have generated an estimated $103 million for programs addressing homelessness, mental health treatment and housing.

The measure would have raised the county’s property tax rate to 24.865 cents per $100 of taxable property value. Revenue would have funded efforts to reduce homelessness, address encampments, expand access to mental health services and help residents secure stable housing.

In the Texas House, Democrat Zach Herbert defeated Republican Rep. Angie Chen Button in District 112, receiving 43,251 votes (53.56%) to Button’s 37,499 (46.44%).

In District 89, Democrat Angie Carraway defeated Republican Rep. Candy Noble, 50.80% to 49.20%. Carraway got 44,156 votes to 42,764 for Noble. The district includes parts of Plano, Parker, Wylie, St. Paul, Lucas, Fairview, Lowry Crossing, Princeton, Lavon, Nevada and Josephine.

Collin County voters also rejected bond proposals from the county and college district.

Collin County Proposition A would have provided $296.5 million for court and detention facility projects, including improvements to court facilities, adult detention facilities, medical and mental health detention facilities and adult probation facilities.

It received 158,685 votes (37.41%), while 265,539 voters (62.59%) opposed it.

Collin County Proposition B failed by a narrower 51.67% (219,065) to 48.33% (204,907) margin. It would have provided $475 million for road improvement projects, including the design, construction, improvement and maintenance of non-tolled roads and bridges. The proposition also would have covered land and right-of-way acquisitions and participation in joint county-state and county-city projects.

Collin County Proposition C received 46.68% favorable votes (197,460) to 53.32% opposed (225,561).

It would have provided $6 million for parks and open space projects, including the acquisition, development, construction and improvement of park and open-space land and joint county-city projects.

The largest margin of defeat was for Collin County Proposition D, which was rejected 69.97% to 30.03% (294,202-126,279).

It would have provided $40 million for a new elections and records storage facility including space for storing and processing paper ballots adopted last year by the county. The facility would include elections offices and training space, election and equipment storage, and storage for county records and historical documents.

Collin College Proposition A failed 52.48% to 47.52% or 221,774 to 200,854.

The college district’s proposition would have authorized $600 million for workforce and academic expansions at the McKinney Campus, the Technical Campus in Allen, the Frisco Campus, the Wylie Campus, the Farmersville Campus and the Courtyard Center in Plano.

The proposition also included funding for new facilities, including an Aviation Academy in McKinney, a new campus in Anna and a new campus in Royse City.

Results are not official until canvassed.

Chad Engbrock contributed to this story.

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