Texas: 370,219 Democrats vote early in 10 districts, compared to 282,928 Republicans

[Miles Archer]

Coming off of a highly contested presidential election and with various high-profile statewide and congressional elections on the ballot, over 650,000 Texans voted early in the state’s ten counties with the highest number of registered voters.

Overall, 370,219 Democrats voted early in those ten counties compared to 282,928 Republicans. Four years earlier, Republicans outvoted Democrats in early voting in those ten counties 253,019 to 184,489, respectively. That means Democratic turnout more than doubled from four years ago, while Republican turnout rose less than 15 percent.

When we factor population growth in these ten counties, Republican turnout was largely unchanged, with the percent of the voting-age population voting early remaining on-trend with previous years. Democratic turnout, however, was up in all ten counties except for Hidalgo County, which saw a drop in Democratic voter turnout from 6.1% of the voting age population voting early in 2014, to 5.1% in 2018.

Travis County saw the highest jump in Democratic voter turnout with over 6% of the voting age population, or 56,426 voters, showing up to vote early, a 4 percentage-point increase from the 2014 election.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/texas-sees-huge-surge-democratic-voters-first-primary-2018-elections/

[beachbum bob]

1. no wonder GOP in full panic mode in texas and elswhere with little hope to see a change

of direction


we may watch massive voter intimidation and violation of rights next as thats the only recourse left

[vercetti2021]

2. Just hope more Dems vote in November too

Hate to see the pukes pull out some bs and Cruz wins again. Gotta work hard as balls down here, but we can do it!

[blogslut]

3. I wish there were party breakdowns for smaller districts in Texas.