{"id":188362,"date":"2026-03-03T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188362\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:43:08","slug":"austin-texas-primary-election-2026-live-updates-and-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188362\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Texas primary election 2026: Live updates and results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for Texans to cast their ballots to determine which party nominees will run for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/politics\/elections\/article\/texas-primary-elections-2026-key-senate-ag-races-21345512.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some of the state&#8217;s highest offices<\/a>. These positions include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/politics\/state\/article\/james-talarico-jasmine-crockett-21309800.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Senate<\/a>, Texas attorney general, key congressional seats and numerous state posts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/politics\/elections\/local\/article\/travis-county-voting-locations-texas-election-2026-21345766.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.<\/a> on Tuesday. Travis County participates in the state&#8217;s Countywide Polling Place Program, which allows registered voters to cast a ballot at any poll in their county of residence.<\/p>\n<p>Follow along for live updates throughout Election Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time for Texans to cast their ballots to determine which party nominees will run for some of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,288,27],"class_list":["post-188362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-elections","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188362","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=188362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}