Early voting turnout in Travis County is the highest it has been for a primary election since 2008
Early voting turnout in Travis County — so far — is the highest it's been for any primary election since 2008, according to data from the Texas Secretary of State.
Nearly 9% of Travis County’s more than 920,000 registered voters cast a ballot in the first week of early voting. Roughly 7% — or close to 63,000 people — have voted in the Democratic primary, and just over 16,000 people have cast a ballot in the Republican primary, according to the Travis County Clerk's office.
The turnout sails past almost every primary election in the past two decades — including presidential ones.
In 2016, for example, when Texas’ own Ted Cruz was on the ballot alongside Donald Trump, then Sen. Marco Rubio and then Ohio Gov. John Kasich, roughly the same percentage of registered Republican voters had hit the polls during the first week of early voting compared to this election. At the same time, less than 4% of registered Travis County Democrats, who were deciding between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, had voted.
https://www.kut.org/austin/2026-02-24/austin-tx-travis-county-early-voting-turnout-2026-primary-election
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