{"id":477535,"date":"2026-10-26T22:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477535\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T22:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:26:27","slug":"more-than-214k-ballots-cast-in-collin-county-early-voting-mckinney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477535\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 214K ballots cast in Collin County early voting | McKinney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the close of the first week of early voting on Oct. 25, 214,745 voters had cast their ballots at polling locations in Collin County, county documents show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Latest update<\/p>\n<p>About 26.9% of the county\u2019s registered voters have turned out for the midterm election as of Oct. 25, according to the Collin County Elections Office. Additionally, 6,042 voters cast ballots by mail from Oct. 19-24, county documents show. The county has 799,130 registered voters, a representative of the Collin County Elections Office confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Collin County had 693,753 people participate in early voting, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/earlyvoting.texas-election.com\/Elections\/getElectionEVDates.do\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Texas Secretary of State\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collincountytx.gov\/elections\/details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">busiest polling locations during early voting<\/a> so far have been McKinney\u2019s John and Judy Gay Library, Plano\u2019s Davis Library and Allen Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned<\/p>\n<p>Early voting continues through Oct. 30, with polls open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Voters can <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/mckinney\/election\/early-voting-begins-oct-19-here-is-what-collin-county-residents-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">cast ballots at any<\/a> of the county\u2019s 42 early voting locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Voters can also cast ballots in person on Election Day, Nov. 3, at more than 90 polling locations throughout Collin County.<\/p>\n<p>Collin County voters will have the opportunity to vote for representatives at the local, county, state and federal levels. Several state senators and representatives are up for election, as well as Texas governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and railroad commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside a number of statewide races, voters will decide a variety of local races including:<\/p>\n<p>County judge<\/p>\n<p>County clerk<\/p>\n<p>County commissioner, precinct 4<\/p>\n<p>Collin County Appraisal District, place 2<\/p>\n<p>Collin County residents will also consider a 4-proposition,<a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/frisco\/government\/collin-county-calls-8175m-bond-to-address-growth-needs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> $817.5 million bond package<\/a> from Collin County, as well as a<a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/mckinney\/election\/voters-to-consider-600-million-collin-college-bond-in-november-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> $600 million bond proposition<\/a> from Collin College.<\/p>\n<p>To view your ballot and election information, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">www.communityimpact.com\/voter-guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the close of the first week of early voting on Oct. 25, 214,745 voters had cast their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[61765,46470,960,161403,147224,2065,161404,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-477535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-allen-public-library","tag-collin-college","tag-collin-county","tag-collin-county-elections-office","tag-davis-library","tag-early-voting","tag-john-and-judy-gay-library","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477535","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=477535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}