Great voter turnout in Sanger Precincts

Sanger registered voters had a great turnout at the polling locations in the November 5 General Election with 8,444 voters casting ballots in the five main precints.  There are 12,031 registered voters in these precincts with a 70.15% turnout.  See the breakdown to the right.  At the early voting location at the Sanger Community Center there were 6,337 people who voted in 12 days. Note: not all the early votes are from the five main Sanger precincts.  

In a local race, Denton County Sheriff Tracy Murphree won a third term despite Democrat Fredrick Bishop’s effort to unseat him. Official results reported by the county elections administration Tuesday night showed 249,138 votes, or about 60%, for Murphree and 163,566 for Bishop, with all precincts reporting.

Murphree, of Sanger, first won the county’s highest law enforcement office in 2016 and was reelected in 2020.

He secured sizable wins against opponents Randy Butler in 2016, when Murphree won with 79.8% of the vote, and write-in candidate Freya Odinsdottir in 2020, when the sheriff was reelected with 94.3% of the vote.

Hailing from Yoakum County, Murphree has previously worked at the Texas Department of Public Safety as a Texas Ranger in Denton County and was a captain of the criminal investigation division for the Denton County Sheriff’s Office.

A former Dallas police officer, Bishop was born and raised in Denton County. He served in the U.S. Army and is in the reserve, worked as a jailer for the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department and retired from the Dallas Police Department as a detective. He teaches law enforcement at Little Elm High School.