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Early voting in Texas primaries, 2018

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The chart below shows early voting turnout for both parties from the 14 Texas counties for which data was publicly available in 2014 and 2018. Both election years included the same seats and did not coincide with a presidential election.

There are 11 days of early voting in Texas, starting on the Tuesday two weeks before Election Day and running until the Friday before Election Day. In 2018, the final day of early voting was March 2, 2018.[1][2]

There were 13,601,324 registered voters at the time of the March 2014 primaries, meaning the counties used in this analysis contained 62.4 percent of all registered voters in 2014.[3]

Voter registration Democratic turnout Republican turnout
County 2014 2018 % change 2014 2018 % change 2014 2018 % change
Bexar 915,839 1,062,051 16.0% 27,544 49,532 79.8% 40,549 39,533 -2.5%
Cameron 181,802 201,020 10.6% 10,626 10,155 -4.4% 2,110 2,138 1.3%
Collin 466,533 551,400 18.2% 5,331 19,895 273.2% 27,669 40,621 46.8%
Dallas 1,170,598 1,284,089 9.7% 34,815 69,844 100.6% 43,745 40,487 -7.4%
Denton 388,608 475,203 22.3% 4,079 15,033 268.5% 23,210 27,986 20.6%
El Paso 390,949 439,943 12.5% 17,382 29,394 69.1% 5,238 5,779 10.3%
Fort Bend 349,550 414,668 18.6% 4,529 16,542 265.2% 16,293 20,134 23.6%
Galveston 185,850 207,821 11.8% 2,892 5,848 102.2% 11,953 15,744 31.7%
Harris 2,006,270 2,257,546 12.5% 30,108 87,916 192.0% 75,400 81,537 8.1%
Hidalgo 307,426 349,202 13.6% 33,688 34,778 3.2% 3,923 4,259 8.6%
Montgomery 270,019 320,083 18.5% 1427 5,090 256.7% 25,078 27,902 11.3%
Tarrant 969,434 1,095,458 13.0% 22,621 38,731 71.2% 52,719 55,711 5.7%
Travis 627,040 736,112 17.4% 23,088 61,772 167.6% 17,149 21,483 25.3%
Williamson 259,878 315,917 21.6% 4,044 14,894 268.3% 13,728 20,826 51.7%
Totals 8,489,796 9,710,513 +14.4% 222,174 459,424 +106.8% 358,764 404,140 +12.6%
  1. ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "Early Voting - 2018," accessed February 25, 2018
  2. ↑ Texas Secretary of State "Early Voting Totals Archive," accessed February 25, 2018
  3. ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "Turnout and Voter Registration Figures (1970-current)," accessed February 26, 2018
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