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Granberry was the choice of Republican [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Tower]], the nominal head of the Texas GOP at the time. He would carry his party's tattered banner in the year in which the national party was dragged down by the [[Watergate]] affair, which had forced the resignation of [[U.S. President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]].

Granberry was the choice of Republican [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Tower]], the nominal head of the Texas GOP at the time. He would carry his party's tattered banner in the year in which the national party was dragged down by the [[Watergate]] affair, which had forced the resignation of [[U.S. President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]].

Dolph Briscoe hence defeated Granberry in the strongly Democratic year. Briscoe polled 1,016,334 votes (61.4 percent), compared to 514,725 (31.1 percent) for Granberry, and 93,295 for the [[Hispanic]] Raza Unida Party nominee, [[Ramsey Muniz|Ramsey Muñiz]], who had also been the La Raza candidate in 1972 against Briscoe. Another approximately thirty thousand ballots were cast in the 1974 contest for other candidates. Briscoe, who had served the last two-year gubernatorial term in Texas, therefore became the first Texas governor to win a four-year term since the establishment of the Texas Constitution of 1876.<ref>Texas Secretary of State, General election returns, November 5, 1974.</ref> Briscoe polled 617,159 fewer votes against Granberry than he had with his initial election in 1972 against the [[conservative]] Republican [[Henry C. Grover]]of [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], because of a much lower turnout in 1974.

Dolph Briscoe hence defeated Granberry in the strongly Democratic year. Briscoe polled 1,016,334 votes (61.4 percent), compared to 514,725 (31.1 percent) for Granberry, and 93,295 for the [[Hispanic]] Raza Unida Party nominee, Ramsey Muñiz, who had also been the La Raza candidate in 1972 against Briscoe. Another approximately thirty thousand ballots were cast in the 1974 contest for other candidates. Briscoe, who had served the last two-year gubernatorial term in Texas, therefore became the first Texas governor to win a four-year term since the establishment of the Texas Constitution of 1876.<ref>Texas Secretary of State, General election returns, November 5, 1974.</ref> Briscoe polled 617,159 fewer votes against Granberry than he had with his initial election in 1972 against the [[conservative]] Republican [[Henry C. Grover]]of [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], because of a much lower turnout in 1974.

==Later years==

==Later years==