| − | '''James Franklin Landtroop, Jr.''', known as '''Jim Landtroop''' (born January 18, 1968), is a [[business]]man from [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]], who is a [[Republican Party| Republican]] former one-term member of the Texas House of Representatives]for District 85 in the [[South Plains]]. He lost his 2016 bid to return to the House with an intra-party challenge to Representative John Frullo of Lubbock. | + | '''James Franklin Landtroop, Jr.''', known as '''Jim Landtroop''' (born January 18, 1968), is a [[business]]man from [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]], who is a [[Republican Party| Republican]] former one-term member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 85 in the South Plains. He lost his 2016 bid to return to the House with an intra-party challenge to Representative John Frullo of Lubbock. |
| | In the [[general election]] held on November 2, 2010,the [[conservative]] Landtroop, who then resided in Plainview in Hale County, unseated two-term [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] incumbent Joseph P. Heflin of Crosbyton, 17,426 votes (61.6 percent) to 10,853 (38.4 percent). Landtroop won fifteen of the sixteen counties in the district, losing only in Heflin's own Crosby County. He secured comfortable margins in two of the larger counties in the district, Hale and Howard, which includes Big Spring.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/nov02_154_state.htm|title=Texas general election returns, November 2, 2010|publisher=[[Texas Secretary of State]]|accessdate=November 5, 2010}}</ref> | | In the [[general election]] held on November 2, 2010,the [[conservative]] Landtroop, who then resided in Plainview in Hale County, unseated two-term [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] incumbent Joseph P. Heflin of Crosbyton, 17,426 votes (61.6 percent) to 10,853 (38.4 percent). Landtroop won fifteen of the sixteen counties in the district, losing only in Heflin's own Crosby County. He secured comfortable margins in two of the larger counties in the district, Hale and Howard, which includes Big Spring.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/nov02_154_state.htm|title=Texas general election returns, November 2, 2010|publisher=[[Texas Secretary of State]]|accessdate=November 5, 2010}}</ref> |