Who did your neighbor vote for in the 2024 Harris County runoff election?

Houston Chronicle: Who did your neighbor vote for in the 2024 Harris County runoff election?

A nail-biter political fight for Mayor John Whitmire's former state Senate seat and a hearty defeat of a four-term Democratic state representative who found herself on the outskirts of her own party — those were two of the highlights in Houston's primary runoff election on Tuesday. 

We've compiled the precinct-level results for these two key races: state Senate District 15 (Whitmire's former seat) where state Sen. Molly Cook defeated state Rep. Jarvis Johnson by a slim 74-vote margin and state House District 146 where union organizer Lauren Ashley Simmons emerged victorious over sitting state Rep. Shawn Thierry by a nearly 2,000-vote margin.

Senate District 15

Voters in state Senate District 15, the district long-helmed by Whitmire, have become pretty used to heading to the polls. Cook and Johnson advanced to a runoff during the Democratic primary in March, knocking out four other contenders. Cook then defeated Johnson by double digit margins in a special election in early May to determine who would finish out the remainder of Whitmire’s term through the end of the year.

In Tuesday's runoff election to determine who would take on Republican Joseph Trahan in November and represent the district after this year, Cook defeated Johnson by less than half of a percentage point.