Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa of Austin carried urban, suburban and southern border counties across the state in Tuesday’s election, leading to a decisive victory against Republican incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott.
Tarrant County went to Hinojosa by 14 percentage points, making her the first Democratic gubernatorial candidate to take the increasingly purple county in three decades. In 2022, Abbott beat Democrat Beto O’Rourke by 4 percentage points in the governor’s race.
Hinojosa won Forth Worth and south central Tarrant County in a landslide — in some neighborhoods in suburban Forest Hill, she beat Abbott by nearly 90% of the vote. Most of eastern Tarrant County, including Arlington and Euless also went to Hinojosa…