The Texas House race covering a large part of Celina ended election night separated by 134 votes.
Republican state Rep. Keresa Richardson finished with 44,760 votes (49.14%) in House District 61, ahead of Democrat Brittany Black with 44,626 (49.00%). Green Party candidate Anissa Chilmeran drew 1,692 votes (1.86%), more than 12 times the gap between the top two.
Those totals are unofficial. They come from the county elections office's report issued just after 1 a.m. Wednesday, once every vote center had been counted. District 61 lies wholly within Collin County; it does not appear on Denton County's results. Richardson is the district's sitting representative, according to the Texas House website.
How the vote came in
The early vote and the Election Day vote leaned in opposite directions. Black led among early voters, 37,272 to 35,467, and narrowly carried mail ballots, 790 to 738. Richardson closed the gap with in-person voting on Tuesday itself, outpolling Black 8,555 to 6,564, according to the county's breakdown.
About 2,700 ballots in the race were left blank for this contest, the report shows, and 45 were overvoted.
Celina's split
The Texas Legislative Council, the Legislature's research agency, counts about 45% of Celina's residents in District 61. The district also takes in about two-thirds of McKinney, a quarter of Frisco and part of Anna.