{"id":472037,"date":"2026-10-20T22:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472037\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T22:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:40:14","slug":"nearly-41000-travis-county-voters-cast-first-day-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472037\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 41,000 Travis County voters cast first-day ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly 41,000 people in Travis County cast a ballot on the first day of early voting for the Nov. 3 election, surpassing every first-day voter turnout record for a midterm election this century, according to data from the Texas Secretary of State\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

About 4.3% of the county\u2019s 952,713 registered voters cast a ballot Monday, compared to just 2.8% on the first day of early voting in the 2022 midterm election, and 4.14% of voters in 2018.<\/p>\n

Travis County Clerk Dyana Limon-Mercado said the office has been prepping for potentially historic turnout based on the primary election, which had the highest early voting turnout record of any primary election since 2008.<\/a><\/p>\n

Limon-Mercado said her office set out to make this \u201cthe most accessible election in our community’s history\u201d by increasing the number of polling locations and expanding voting hours.<\/p>\n

There are 45 early voting locations available this election, up from 38 in the last midterm, and 201 Election Day sites. The polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day of early voting, including weekends. On the last two days of early voting, these seven polling sites will be open until 10 p.m.<\/p>\n

Ben Hur Shrine CenterLakeway Activity CenterMillennium Youth Entertainment ComplexPfISD Rock GymRandalls BrodieTravis County Clerk, 5501 Airport Blvd.UT Texas Union<\/p>\n

Early voting runs through Oct. 30, and Election Day is Nov. 3. If you need help making a plan to vote, check out our Travis County voter guide. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 41,000 people in Travis County cast a ballot on the first day of early voting for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2135,1967,24610,160041,68682,70442],"class_list":["post-472037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-james-talarico","tag-ken-paxton","tag-midterm-election","tag-voter-turnout-travis-county","tag-whats-on-my-ballot","tag-where-to-vote-in-travis-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472037","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=472037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}