SAN ANTONIO — Republican Peter Flores currently represents District 19 in the Texas Senate, but Democratic challenger Roland Gutierrez has a lead of more than 20,000 votes with 43% of precincts reporting, as of 9 p.m.
In State Senate District 19, which encompasses part of San Antonio and other communities over 35,400 squares miles of south-southeast Texas, Gutierrez is running to unseat Flores, who has held the office since winning a special election runoff in 2018.
Flores was running to finish the term of convicted felon Carlos Uresti. Now, he's seeking the full four years in office.
Gutierrez has spent a decade in the Texas House, where he advocated for gun safety reform and called for attention to the environmental impacts of President Donald Trump's border-expansion proposals.
Flores amassed more votes in the spring primaries, but he also ran opposed; Gutierrez went on to defeat Xochil Pena Rodriguez in a tight Democratic primary runoff in July.
State Senate District 19 has tended to vote Democrat in recent elections.