A voter walks into the Como Community Center to cast her ballot on the first day of early voting in Tarrant County.
Rachel Royster
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In Tarrant County, more Democratic primary voters went to the polls than Republicans during early voting for the March 3 election.
The trend aligns with what’s being seen overall in Texas, as voters cast their ballots in primary races, with competitive, high-profile U.S. Senate races at the top of the ticket.
In total, Tarrant County early voters cast nearly 214,000 ballots in person in the Democratic and Republican primaries, according to an unofficial tally from the Tarrant County Elections Administration. Early voting started Feb. 17 and ended Friday.
There were 30,500 more Democratic primary voters than Republican primary voters in Tarrant County, which is often referred to as a bellwether for the rest of the state. The early voting period brought 122,184 in-person voters to the polls in the Democratic primary and 91,684 in- person voters in the Republican primary.
The Dionne Phillips Bagsby Southwest Subcourthouse in Fort Worth was the busiest early voting location in the Democratic primary, with 7,696 early voters. Keller Town Hall saw 6,397 Republican primary voters, making it the most trafficked early voting location in the GOP primary.
The total number of in-person early voters this year surpassed what was seen in the 2024 and 2022 primary elections, when more Republican primary voters cast ballots than Democrats.
In the 2024 primaries, a presidential election year that also featured a U.S. Senate race, there were 31,641 in-person votes cast early in the Democratic primary and 73,501 cast early in the Republican primary, according to the Tarrant County Election Administration.
In 2022, a midterm election year, 35,337 Democratic primary voters went to the polls early, compared with 67,557 Republican primary voters.
This story was originally published February 28, 2026 at 11:19 AM.
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Eleanor (Elly) Dearman is a Texas politics and government reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She’s based in Austin, covering the Legislature and its impact on North Texas. She grew up in Denton and has been a reporter for more than six years.
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