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For campaign workers and volunteers; it was a hard fought campaign that ended with only 10 votes separating the two candidates in the runoff election.
But with all the votes counted, Victor Hernandez will be returning to the seat he once held on the Lubbock City Council for nearly 12 years.
Hernandez was sworn in on Friday, June 18.
The vote was not deemed official until Thursday at 5:00PM due to the fact that overseas ballots were still out and voters had until then to return them to the city elections office.
While the voter turnout was small when compared to the total number of registered voters in District 1, Hernandez’s supporters and campaign volunteers took pride in the fact that they had prevailed. And for them to do so, it took a grass roots effort in which volunteers were asked to repeatedly follow up with potential voters and urge them to make sure they cast their vote for Hernandez.
Had this grass roots effort not been put in place, the outcome could have been very different because of the relatively small voter turnout. Out of over 14,000 registered voters, only a little over 1,500 residents cast a vote during the runoff.
And there is no way to know for certain what outside factors impacted this election and what was behind the small margin of victory.
Was it newspaper endorsements like El Editor’s of Victor Hernandez which helped him, or the Avalanche Journal’s of Glen Robertson in which they noted they were concerned that the council would lose Hispanic representation?
Did Councilwoman Linda DeLeon’s endorsement of Robertson have a positive impact, no impact, or the reverse effect?
The only thing that most residents who were heavily involved in the campaign agree on
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