The federal influence is evidently infecting Texas.
Our state’s secretary of state offers a web listing of “Election Night Returns” with a button for a “Statewide Race Summary”.
You can see it here.
The listing provided starts with the contest for United States senator. Personally I think that the state offices are more important to us but at least the senatorial race was actually one that included the whole state.
The site then goes on to list the races for United States representative, all 35 of them. By definition they are not statewide races but evidently someone at the secretary of state’s office thinks that these federal district elections are more important than our state races.
The state races are listed last.
By the way, if my counting is right Texas will be sending six democrats to Washington next year. None of the six winners had a republican opponent.
It seems that some of our state officials consider the federal government to be more important than our state government.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
All six Dems candidates for House seats were opposed — just not be Republicans, as you point out. Likewise, according to my math, six Republican congressional race winners did not have a Democratic opponent. One Republican, John Ratcliffe in District 4 north of Dallas, was totally unopposed.
In the state senatorial races, six Republicans ran without a Democratic opponent or totally unopposed. I believe only one Democrat ran unopposed by the GOP.
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I do not think it is an order of preference but more like one side can only see BIG RED (R).
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