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|term_end=January 2021
|term_end=January 2021
|preceded=Dan Montgomery
|preceded=Dan Montgomery
|succeeded=Rebecca Bell-Metereau
|office2=Texas State Representative for<br>District 117 (Bexar County)
|office2=Texas State Representative for<br>District 117 (Bexar County)
|term_start2=January 2003
|term_start2=January 2003
Though he lost the [[Austin]] precincts, Mercer defeated Bell-Metereau in the overall District 5, 382,914 votes (49.6 percent) to 352,097 (45.6 percent). The remaining 36,412 ballots (4.7 percent) went to Ricardo Perkins, nominee of the [[Libertarian Party]]. Had the Libertarians voted for Bell-Metereau, she would have unseated Mercer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://enrpages.sos.state.tx.us/public/nov08_319_state.htm|title=Election Returns|date=November 8, 2016|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=November 9, 2016}}</ref>
Though he lost the [[Austin]] precincts, Mercer defeated Bell-Metereau in the overall District 5, 382,914 votes (49.6 percent) to 352,097 (45.6 percent). The remaining 36,412 ballots (4.7 percent) went to Ricardo Perkins, nominee of the [[Libertarian Party]]. Had the Libertarians voted for Bell-Metereau, she would have unseated Mercer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://enrpages.sos.state.tx.us/public/nov08_319_state.htm|title=Election Returns|date=November 8, 2016|publisher=Texas Secretary of State|accessdate=November 9, 2016}}</ref>
Two Republican candidates, Robert Partlow Morrow (born 1964) of Austin and Lani Popp (born 1959), a public school speech pathologist from [[San Antonio]], meet on May 26, 2020, when voters choose a party nominee to contest the seat in the November 3 general election. All ten Republicans on the SBOE have endorsed Popp, an unusual show of solidarity in a contested primary. Morrow briefly served as the Travis County GOP chairman, but when he declared himself a write-in candidate for U.S. President, he had to step down after three months as county chairman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.statesman.com/news/20200312/gop-members-of-state-board-of-education-say-no-to-robert-morrow|title=GOP members of the State Board of Education say no to Robert Morrow|author=Julie Chang|publisher=''The Austin American-Statesman''|date=March 10, 2020|accessdate=March 15, 2020}}</ref> Morrow was succeeded by his Travis County predecessor, [[James Dickey]].
Two Republican candidates, Robert Partlow Morrow (born 1964) of Austin and Lani Popp (born 1959), a public school speech pathologist from [[San Antonio]], met on May 26, 2020, when voters choose Popp as the nominee to succeed Mercer. Popp, however, was narrowly defeated b.in the November 3 general election by the same Democrat that Mercer had beaten in 2016, Rebecca Bell-Metereau. All ten Republicans on the SBOE endorsed Popp, an unusual show of solidarity in a contested primary. Morrow briefly served as the Travis County GOP chairman, but when he declared himself a write-in candidate for U.S. President, he had to step down after three months as county chairman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.statesman.com/news/20200312/gop-members-of-state-board-of-education-say-no-to-robert-morrow|title=GOP members of the State Board of Education say no to Robert Morrow|author=Julie Chang|publisher=''The Austin American-Statesman''|date=March 10, 2020|accessdate=March 15, 2020}}</ref> Morrow was succeeded by his Travis County predecessor, [[James Dickey]].
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