Number Crunching on the Houston Mayoral Runoff

My buddy Greg Wythe crunched numbers from bell weather precincts in Houston neighborhoods for the December 12th mayoral runoff and got these results:

Acres Home: Parker 18%, Locke 82%

UH/TSU: Parker 16%, Locke 84%

Clear Lake: Parker 64%, Locke 36%

East End: Parker 67%, Locke 33%

Fifth Ward: Parker 9%, Locke 92%

Galleria: Parker 63%, Locke 37%

Heights: Parker 83%, Locke 17%

Near Northside: Parker 60%, Locke 40%

Kingwood: Parker 63%, Locke 37%

Meyerland: Parker 77%, Locke 23%

Montrose: Parker 91%, Locke 9%

Alief: Parker 43%, Locke 57%

Garden Oaks: Parker 70%, Locke 30%

Rice: Parker 87%, Locke 13%

River Oaks: 74% Parker, Locke 26%

Hobby: Parker 38%, Locke 62%

Sharpstown: Parker 61%, Locke 39%

Spring Branch: Parker 65%, Locke 35%

Sunnyside: Parker 10%, Locke 90%

Hiram Clarke: Parker 17%, Locke 83%

Memorial: Parker 65%, Locke 35%

It appears Parker stole the Republican pincer from Locke. Republican areas of town voted overwhelmingly for Parker. The Hotze-Welch anti-gay mail effort, netted Locke 35%, at most. The black-brown coalition did not pay off either, with Parker getting a minimum of 60% in Latino neighborhoods. Locke won big in African American neighborhoods, and also won in Hobby and Alief, but that's it. All other neighborhoods went for Parker.

What are you seeing from the numbers? I'd love to hear from you in the comments.

(Note: Sadly, Greg is not blogging at Greg's Opinion until after the 2010 November election. The good news he's on staff at Bill White for Texas, doing great things there. Thanks to him, for the numbers!)