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There are a total of 17,578,640 registered voters in Texas: 6,617,030 are registered as Republicans (37.64%), 8,182,838 as Democrats (46.55%), and 2,778,772 as Independents and others (15.81%).

In the Republican Senate primary run-off Paxton received 586,953 votes (63.5%), Cornyn got 337,476 (36.5%), for a total of 924,429 votes.

Only 13.9% of registered Republicans in Texas voted in the Senate primary .run-off.

Note: Texas does not have a closed primary system. On primary election day, voters choose which party's ballot they want, they don't need to be registered with that party. In Texas this choice is made privately at the polling place. Any registered voter can vote in any party's primary, regardless of their own party affiliation or registration status. Texas does not have registration by political party. A voter becomes a Republican by voting in the Republican primary or Republican primary run-off, the same for Democrats.