How Texas counties voted for Beto O’Rourke

U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke of El Paso won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate with 61.8 percent of the vote and will face off against incumbent Ted Cruz, a Republican, in the fall.

Despite O’Rourke’s aggressive campaigning and fundraising, he lost several border counties to a lesser-known primary challenger, Sema Hernandez, who received about 24 percent of the vote.

For a county by county analysis of other key races in Texas, click here.

The geographic pattern is evocative of former state Sen. Wendy Davis’ primary performance on the border in 2014, during her bid for governor.

Though Davis won the nomination handily, she lost by a wide margin to Abbott in the general election that year, and some political observers wondered if her shortcomings in border counties presaged her loss in the general.