Republican Susan Wright, the widow of the late Texas Rep. Ron Wright, will head to a runoff election in her campaign to fill her husband’s 6th Congressional District seat.

Wright will face state Rep. Jake Ellzey, a fellow Republican, in a runoff election to be scheduled no earlier than May 24.

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