Eliminated in the primary are Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Todd Staples, who finished third, and the fourth-placed candidate, Land Commissioner Jerry E. Patterson, who succeeded Dewhurst in that position in 2002, when Dewhurst was then first elected as lieutenant governor.
Eliminated in the priamry werer Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Todd Staples, with 235,981 votes (17.8 percent), and Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Jerry E. Patterson, with 165,787 (12.5 percent). Patterson had succeeded Dewhurst as land commissioner in 2002, when Dewhurst was then first elected as lieutenant governor.