{"id":171641,"date":"2026-02-19T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171641\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:48:06","slug":"nueces-county-early-voting-surpasses-4600-ballots-in-first-days-of-2026-primary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171641\/","title":{"rendered":"Nueces County early voting surpasses 4,600 ballots in first days of 2026 primary election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Early voting is underway in Nueces County for the March 3, 2026, primary election, with county officials reporting more than 4,600 ballots cast during the first days of voting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unofficial audited data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuecesco.com\/county-services\/county-clerk\/elections-department\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nueces County Elections Department<\/a> shows a total of 4,668 early votes, as of Thursday, including 2,510 Democratic ballots and 2,158 Republican ballots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That represents a combined countywide turnout of 2.45 percent so far. The Nueces County Courthouse recorded the highest volume of early voters, followed by Veterans Memorial High School, Carroll High School, and Greenwood Senior Center.<\/p>\n<p>Election officials audit and release daily reports that track turnout by location and political party, noting that the figures remain unofficial until final certification.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Early voting continues through February 27, with turnout expected to rise as Election Day approaches.<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/nueces-county-early-voting-ballots\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Early voting is underway in Nueces County for the March 3, 2026, primary election,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-171641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}