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Republican tea party activist Konni Burton defeated Democrat Libby Willis for the state Senate seat vacated by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis.

The race was the only close contest among the 15 state Senate seats on Tuesdays ballots. A Republican win would extend the GOP majority, giving the party control of 20 of the 31 state Senate districts.

Although the Texas Senates status quo mostly held Tuesday, there was significant turnover. Four of the six local state senators elected Tuesday are freshmen, including Bob Hall, Van Taylor and Don Huffines. All received tea party backing and are expected to contribute to a more conservative Senate during the next years session.

In those races, the suspense and surprises came during the primaries as tea party Republicans defeated established GOP politicians. The voters in District 10, which covers much of southern Tarrant County and portions of northeast Tarrant County, had to wait until this week.

District 10 has been the Senates only swing district in recent election cycles. Davis won the seat in 2008 from longtime Republican incumbent Kim Brimer and held off a GOP challenger in 2012. In both elections, Davis won by less than 3 percentage points.

In this race, Burton had a solid lead throughout the night. Her margin wavered at times but changed little from her lead after early voting was counted. Her victory would not be as close as Davis wins.

That expectation of a close race attracted the attention of the states top Republican and Democratic donors and made it one of the most expensive races in Texas. More than $4.14 million was donated to the two major party candidates, including many six-figure contributions.

The Burton campaign had blamed GOP losses in District 10 on lackluster campaigns. Burton officials said they believed that Burton, previously a vice president of the NE Tarrant Tea Party, would energize the Republican base.

Luke Macias, a Burton political consultant, said this is a strong response from voters after a 20-month campaign and knocking on 140,000 doors.

We really took our message directly to the voters, he said. We feel like the district has spoken. The result of the campaign is going from one of the most liberal senators that you could have had in Wendy Davis to probably one of the most conservative senators in the state of Texas.

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After simmering throughout the 2014 primaries and general election, the feud between tea party and establishment Republicans is set to boil over in the next two years as both factions turn up the heat in the battle to be kingmakers for the GOP presidential nominee.

The fight among the potential candidates themselves is already well underway, with conservative senators positioning themselves as the insurgents and several current and former governors as the standard-bearers for the establishment including potentially another member of the Bush family, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Indeed, in states like New Hampshire, which holds the first-in-the-nation primary, the race has been going on for three months, said former Gov. John H. Sununu, who played a major role in 2012 nominee Mitt Romneys campaign.

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I have been having people knock on the door and come have coffee and want to know what is going on and what they should do, Mr. Sununu said. So if they are smart enough to ask the right questions, they get a lot of information. If they dont ask the right questions, they dont get a lot of information.

Voters have been spared much of the internal GOP feuding, as both sides have tried to paper over differences in recent months, joining together in the shared goal of flipping control of the Senate and holding onto key governorships.

But once the postscript on the 2014 elections is written, it will start to simmer again, said Ford OConnell, a GOP strategist. And by the time we reach the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, I expect it to be a driving force in who Republicans nominate as the partys eventual standard-bearer.

More than a dozen possible GOP presidential contenders have made nearly 60 visits to Iowa and more than 40 to New Hampshire, the first two states in the 2016 presidential sweepstakes, according to DemocracyInAction.

The 2016 hopefuls have hunted pheasant, headlined GOP fundraisers and keynoted gatherings of social conservatives.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Pauls super PAC called RAND PAC also has hired full-time staffers in Iowa, New Hampshire and Michigan. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has flexed his fundraising muscle as the head of the Republicans Governors Association a post that gave him a built-in excuse to drop into battleground states.

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