Texas Opens Polls Tuesday After 7.7 Million Early Ballots
Polls open at 7 a.m. Tuesday after 7.7 million Texans, 40.5 percent of registered voters, cast early ballots. Here is when polls close and where to follow the count.
Polls open across Texas at 7 a.m. Tuesday for the November 3 general election, after 7,716,772 Texans voted early, according to preliminary Secretary of State figures.
That is 40.53 percent of the state’s 19,041,684 registered voters. The state’s file counts 7,457,108 ballots cast in person and 259,664 by mail through October 30, the last day of early voting. The state updated the file Sunday, and the total can still move as counties finish reporting and mail ballots arrive.
Voting Tuesday
Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. statewide, the Secretary of State’s office said in its Election Day release. Voters may be required to vote at their assigned polling place if their county does not use countywide polling.
Secretary of State Robert S. Howden urged voters to confirm their polling location and “make sure you have an approved form of ID.” VoteTexas.gov lists polling places and ID requirements, and the state’s help line is 1-800-252-VOTE.
El Paso and Hudspeth counties keep Mountain time, so their polls close at 8 p.m. Central.
Counting Tuesday Night
The Texian Partisan’s election night page carries results from 7 p.m. Central for every statewide race, the Texas Legislature and the State Board of Education, county by county and district by district. Counties post early votes first, so the first numbers of the night lean on the early vote. Results are unofficial until the state canvass, and the Partisan reports the count without calling races.
What the Ballot Decides
The Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) put the limit of any election plainly in its November episode of This Month @ The TNM: “Elections change the management. They don’t change the address.”
Tuesday also elects the Texas House that will sit in the 90th Legislature, which convenes in January 2027. A statewide vote on Texas independence takes a bill through that House and the Texas Senate, and the Texas Independence Referendum Act, TNM’s model legislation, is that bill. How those members vote on it will decide whether Texans get to answer the question themselves.
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