Texas Early Voting Passes 4 Million in First Six Days

More than 4.1 million Texans cast ballots in the first six days of early voting for the November 3 general election, according to the Texas Secretary of State’s daily early voting rosters.

Through Saturday, October 24, the rosters list 3,961,668 Texans who voted in person and 198,798 whose mail ballots had been returned, a combined 4,160,466 voters. That is about 21.8 percent of the state’s 19,041,684 registered voters, with five days of early voting still to go.

The Texian Partisan tallied the figures from the state’s roster files, which list each day’s early voters.

The first week

In-person early voting began Monday, October 19. By the end of Tuesday, more than 1.48 million Texans had voted in person. The count passed 2 million on Wednesday and neared 3.5 million by Friday, and Saturday added more than 460,000.

The largest counties

The five largest counties’ own reports, which run a day ahead of the state’s files, show 1,796,753 in-person voters through Sunday, October 25:

Harris County, 587,516. Dallas County, 358,751. Tarrant County, 323,544. Bexar County, 284,169. Travis County, 242,773.

Those five counties also report 99,612 mail ballots returned.

What comes next

Early voting runs through Friday, October 30. Polls on Election Day are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time.

The Texian Partisan’s election night page tracks early voting county by county each day and will carry live results for every statewide race from 7 p.m. Central on November 3.