In the long battle for Dennis Bonnen’s vacated House District 25 seat in Austin, Republican Cody Vasut has emerged victorious, according to final, unofficial results released Tuesday night by the Brazoria County Elections Division.
Vasut won 71.59 percent of the vote, with a total of 48,340 votes against Democrat J. Patrick Henry’s 19,175 votes, or 28.4 percent.
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Corinna Richardson is the features writer for The Facts. Contact her at 979-237-0150.
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