Dallas developer Phillip Huffines has been elected chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party in a landslide victory with 76 percent of the vote Monday.
Some 158 party leaders cast ballots at Monday night's executive committee meeting, and Huffines received 120 of their votes.
"We can now declare, based on that vote count, that this party is now united," Huffines said before he was sworn in as chairman.
Elizabeth Bingham, a Plano attorney and former Dallas County vice chair, received 26 votes.
Davin Bernstein, a Coppell businessman and president of the Coppell Republican Club, received 12 votes.
"The hardcore conservatives in the party, the tea party folks, the libertarians, now have control of the Dallas County Republican Party," said Gromer Jeffers, political reporter for The Dallas Morning News and Lone Star Politics. "So the question is, will donors now follow up and put their money on the line under his leadership?"
Huffines is the twin brother of State Sen. Don Huffines, R-Dallas.
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