Complex sentence: Macias ran for the state House in the March 2006 Republican primary and unseated by forty-six votes the two-term incumbent, Carter Casteel, a former Comal County county judge.
Split into simpler sentences: Macias ran for the state House in the March 2006 Republican primary. By a margin of only forty-six votes, Macias unseated the two-term incumbent, Carter Casteel, a former Comal County county judge.