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TX Primary: Final Early Vote Totals

by: Phillip Martin

Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 06:53 PM CST

Over one million people voted early in Texas.

In 2004, just over 800,000 voted -- period -- in the primary.

When all was said and done, the increase in early vote totals in Texas' top 14 counties alone almost exceeded the 2004 totals. Here is the final early vote totals -- tomorrow, we see the real thing.

TX Primary Early Vote Totals - Only TX Top 14 Counties
County	Registered Voters	Total In-Person And Mail Voters '08	Total % Early Voting '08	Total In- Person And Mail Voters '04	Total % Early Voting '04	Increase 2008 over 2004
Harris	1,804,641	177,088	9.81%	21,907	1.20%	155,181
Dallas	1,114,002	123,021	11.04%	13,058	1.15%	109,963
Tarrant	890,412	86,584	9.72%	10,408	1.22%	76,176
Bexar	867,084	103,088	11.89%	17,135	1.99%	85,953
Travis	541,315	97,217	17.96%	22,389	4.20%	74,828
Collin	378,730	36,052	9.52%	2,874	0.87%	33,178
El Paso	368,579	50,875	13.80%	15,128	4.29%	35,747
Denton	329,099	28,267	8.59%	2,015	0.70%	26,252
Hidalgo	287,988	51,858	18.01%	30,327	11.79%	21,531
Fort Bend	267,583	34,836	13.02%	2,119	0.92%	32,717
Montgomery	224,321	12,901	5.75%	1,222	0.61%	11,679
Williamson	206,334	23,410	11.35%	2,596	1.44%	20,814
Nueces	189,534	22,614	11.93%	10,146	5.31%	12,468
Galveston	180,288	19,736	10.95%	3,516	2.01%	16,220
Total	7,815,906	867,547	11.39%	154,840	3.60%	712,707

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TX Primary: Final Early Vote Totals | 9 comments

almost? (0.00 / 0)

maybe you didn't major in math ;)

867,547 is greater than 800,000

by: ayjaymay @ Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 19:17:48 PM CST

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maybe you didn't major in reading (0.00 / 0)

In 2004, just over 800,000 voted -- period -- in the primary.

867,547 is simply the total of the top 14 counties EV in 2008 for the Democratic primary (which doesn't include the other 250 counties which don't report to the SOS but certainly push the total number over 1,000,000 EV for this primary.

Phillip's got it.

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by: Karl-Thomas Musselman @ Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 19:29:09 PM CST

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I wrote it wrong (and now I've fixed it).

I meant to write the increase in early vote totals...

Now, a very great man once said that some people rob you with a fountain pen.

by: Phillip Martin @ Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 19:55:26 PM CST

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Are these numbers just for democrats or are they for both parties?

by: trowaman @ Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 19:35:16 PM CST

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Just Dems (0.00 / 0)

Now, a very great man once said that some people rob you with a fountain pen.

by: Phillip Martin @ Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 19:54:16 PM CST

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301,000 R for the 14 counties (0.00 / 0)

according to the SoS website

by: ClaudeB @ Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 20:53:23 PM CST

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Hildalgo beats out Travis! (0.00 / 0)

Hidalgo wins the prize for the highest turnout (as a percentage of registered voters) among the big 15. Travis still wins the prize for the highest increase (13.76%). Fort Bend comes in second (12.10%), with an amazing 14-fold increase from 2004.

Hidalgo had the highest number of early voters in 2004, more than bigger counties like Harris, Dallas, Travis and Bexar. This year they're only 6th in raw numbers, which has to be a disappointment for Clinton. I wonder if the pollsters are taking early turnout into account in their models.

Do we expect a super-heavy turnout tomorrow, or has everybody but me already voted?

by: LSadun @ Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 21:49:18 PM CST

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Early Voting Totals (0.00 / 0)

The Early totals,in the Early Voting, for Bexar, El Paso, Hidalgo, Nueces, etc seemed to be lower than Early Voting totals in Dallas,Houston and Travis County.

That indicated to me that Hillary might be in trouble. Hispanics in our last contested mayoral race did not vote early and, in fact, Mayor Hardberger got enough early votes to win the election before Election Day votes for Julain Castro were counted.

However, the Hispanic Early Votes seems to have surged in the last days of Early Voting in the Hispanic South Texas Counties....Is the Hillary Organization finally working?

Early voters mean you can work on getting more people to the polls on Election Day..

Any thoughts form you guys?

by: utsapolprof @ Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 23:16:19 PM CST

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always surges in the last days of early voting. Everywhere, including Travis.

by: Kedron Touvell @ Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 07:01:11 AM CST

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