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Election Record

August 20, 2026

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El Paso’s 1984 general election drew a strong 63.8 percent turnout, but local historian John O. West contrasted it with a far more extraordinary county-seat election held on Dec. 3, 1883. That contest pitted El Paso against Ysleta over the location of the El Paso County seat, a dispute rooted in…

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