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Democrats lead in El Paso’s contested judicial races [1]

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Date: 2022-11-08  

Political newcomer Lisa Soto built an early voting lead over Republican incumbent Justice Jeffrey Alley among El Paso voters for a seat on the El Paso-based 8th Court of Appeals.

In El Paso, which is the most populous county among the 17 West Texas counties in the appeals court district, Soto had 65.5% of the vote in early voting. The early voting totals from the other 17 counties are not yet available.

The winner will serve a six-year term as part of a three-judge panel that reviews criminal and civil appeals from lower state and trial courts. Alley was appointed to the bench by Gov. Greg Abbott.

The last Republican elected to a seat on the 8th Court of Appeals was Ward Koehler in 1988.

This was Alley’s second attempt at being elected to the court. Gov. Greg Abbot first appointed him to fill the vacant chief justice position on the court in 2019. He ran for that seat in the November 2020 general election, losing to Democrat Yvonne Rodriguez who got 65% of the vote. Rodriguez had been a justice on the 8th Court of Appeals before being elevated to chief justice, and Abbott appointed Alley to fill her newly vacated position in December 2020.

Election results: How El Pasoans voted in the November 2022 midterms Results of early voting will be posted at 7 p.m. The El Paso County Elections Department will start posting Election Day results at about 8 p.m., with updates coming every 45 minutes or so.

Justice of the Peace Precinct 7

Democrat Humberto “Beto” Enriquez, an attorney, was in the lead over Republican Ida Baeza Gardner for Justice of the Peace Precinct 7 with 57% of the early vote.

The winner will serve a four-year term on the JP court for the Westside and Upper Valley, which hears civil disputes that do not exceed $20,000 and criminal misdemeanors that are not punished by jail time, such as traffic tickets. Texas JP courts also handle truancy cases and evictions.

The winner will take office in January.

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