Using DDHQ's new Votes election data portal, here's a look at the #TXSen primary results and the best counties for the major contenders (in counties where a candidate got at least 1,000 votes)

John Cornyn's best county of any size was Travis County (54.3%), home to the state capital of Austin. Although it will be solidly blue in November, Travis did cast almost 56k votes in the GOP primary (8th-most of any county).

Ken Paxton's best not-tiny county was still-small Sabine County (56.7%) in East Texas. His best larger county was Montgomery (54.6%) in the Houston suburbs — not coincidentally the location of a big part of the defeated Dan Crenshaw's TX-02 district.

Wesley Hunt's best not-tiny county was Chambers County (20.5%) in the Houston 'burbs. His best larger county was right next door in Harris (19.8%), home to Houston and much of his current congressional district.

Over in the Democratic primary, James Talarico's best county where he won >1,000 votes was Gillespie (76.6%), a bit west of Austin. Next-best was unsurprisingly Travis County (75.6%), home to Austin and Talarico's home base.

Jasmine Crockett's strongest county of note was Jefferson (79.0%) in the state's southeast corner. This reflected the east-west split in the Democratic primary, with Crockett stronger east of the Dallas/Houston metros & Talarico stronger to the west.

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