AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – New polling by UT’s Texas Politics Project shows Republicans with an advantage over Democrats ahead of the start of early voting on Monday.
The poll finds Governor Greg Abbott leading Beto O’Rourke by 11 percentage points among likely voters, 54%-43%. Green Party Candidate Delilah Barrios and the Libertarian Party’s Mark Tippets each earned 1% support while 2% preferred an unspecified “someone else.”
The overall poll surveyed 1,200 self-declared registered voters from October 7-17, and has a margin of error of +/- 2.83 for the full sample. Likely voters were defined as those respondents who indicated that they have voted in every election in the past 2-3 years, or who rated their likelihood to vote in the November elections on a 10-point scale as a 9 or a 10. This likely voter screen yielded a pool of 883 likely voters, with a margin of error of +/- 3.3% for the full likely voter sample.
Results from the other statewide races:
Lt. Governor. Dan Patrick 51%, Mike Collier 36%, Shanna Steele 5%, someone else 8%.
Attorney General. Ken Paxton 51%, Rochelle Garza 37%.
Comptroller of Public Accounts. Glenn Hegar 47%, Janet Dudding 35%.
Agriculture Commissioner. Sid Miller 51%, Susan Hayes 39%.
Land Commissioner. Dawn Buckingham 47%, Jay Kelberg 36%.
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