In the March primary, Willett narrowly defeated former Justice Steven Wayne Smith, who sought to regain a seat on the Court that he had lost in the 2004 Republican primary to Justice Paul Green.
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In the November general election, Willett defeated Democratic Party nominee Bill Moody by a 51-45 percent (2.12 million votes to Moody’s 1.87 million).
Smith then sought to get return to the Court in 2006 by entering the primary contest against recent Perry appointee Don Willett, but Willett won the contested vote by a single percentage point.
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