Texas Early Voting Ends With Nearly 6.9 Million Ballots Cast, a Quarter More Than in 2022
Early voting closed Friday night with Texas far past its 2022 pace: about 6.9 million early ballots by the trackers' counts, and an early electorate in which more than a third of voters have no recent primary history in either party.
Texas has finished voting early, and the early electorate is the largest a midterm here has produced. Theo Elections tracked 6,897,400 early ballots statewide by the close of early voting on Friday, October 30 - roughly 1.4 million more than the 5,497,479 early votes it recorded in the 2022 general election, an increase of about 25 percent. A second tracker read by the Texas Desk, StatPlate, put the through-October-30 total at 6,857,566 ballots, 36 percent of the state's registered voters - close enough to confirm the scale, and a reminder that tracker totals move as counties file updates. The Texas Secretary of State cautions that early-voting totals are unofficial and can change with county corrections.
The composition of the early vote changed as much as its size. Voters with no recent primary history in either party made up 36.9 percent of the 2026 early electorate in Theo Elections' classification, up from 27.9 percent in 2022, while voters whose history is Republican-primary-only fell from 39.0 percent to 30.9 percent. Those shares describe the voting histories of the people who turned out early; they say nothing about which candidates any ballot named, and the desk reports them as turnout, not as a result.
What remains is Election Day itself. Polls across Texas are open Tuesday, November 3, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Dallas County voters can cast a ballot at any of the county's vote centers. The early vote is now a fixed fact of the 2026 midterm - nearly seven million Texans have already had their say, at a scale no Texas midterm has reached before. Tuesday decides the rest.
