Texas Democratic Party Announces Unofficial Results of Recount in CD-15 Primary

MCALLEN, Texas -- Today, after Wednesday’s manual recount of the votes in the CD-15 primary runoff election, the Texas Democratic Party announced that Michelle Vallejo has secured enough votes to earn the Democratic nomination for U.S. Congress from the 15th Congressional District. 

“The Texas Democratic Party is fully behind our nominee, Michelle Vallejo, and we're going to put in the hard work required to send her to Washington D.C. to represent South Texas,” said Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa. “We congratulate Michelle and her team for the work they put into this campaign to show voters that Democrats are fighting for them – and thank Ruben Ramirez and his campaign for their dedication to this community as well.”

County-by-county results can be found in the table below:

County Name	Original Vote Count - Vallejo	Original Vote Count - Ramirez	New Vote Count - Vallejo	New Vote Count - Ramirez
Brooks	72	141	72	141
Guadalupe	542	457	542	457
Hidalgo	4,728	4,638	4,730	4,640
Jim Wells	231	280	236	281
Karnes	77	104	77	104
Live Oak	44	55	44	54
Wilson	385	374	385	374
TOTAL	6,079	6,049	6,086	6,051

In counties throughout the District, recount committees were appointed and worked in teams of three to manually recount the ballots. While one person read the ballot, the other two independently tallied the votes. 

Both campaigns were provided the opportunity to send representatives to all of the recount sites. 

The Texas Democratic Party worked to support the County Recount Committees throughout the recount process until every last vote was accurately and transparently tallied.

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