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AUSTIN (KXAN) — With early voting underway in Texas, KXAN is keeping track of how many Texans have voted in the Nov. 5 general election. Millions of Texans are expected to vote.
For many years, voter turnout was reported as a percentage; the numerator being the total votes cast, or the votes cast for the highest office, and the denominator being the Voting Age Population (VAP), the Census Bureau's estimate of the number of persons 18 years old and older resident in the United States.
At least 1.7 million Texans have already cast their votes, accounting for nearly 10% of the state's registered voters by second day of early voting.
More than 9 million Texans participated in early voting, reflecting a 48% turnout. See voter turnout for the top 10 largest counties in the state.
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
Texas is America's most-populous Republican state. [3] Many commentators had suggested that Texas is trending Democratic since 2016, however, Republicans have continued to win every statewide office, albeit by reduced margins, as it was the third-closest state Republicans won in 2020.
About 125,000 turned out to vote in Harris County, home of Houston — half again as many as turned out in the general election of 2016, the last year for which there are statistics from the Texas ...
The following day the count was 2.6 million, which meant 15.51% of the state's registered voters had already voted. [160] For the whole early voting period, votes in the age 18-29 range were higher than the total of that age group of 2016, with 1.3 million votes. [161]