{"id":484985,"date":"2026-11-03T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/484985\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:06:10","slug":"nearly-47-of-collin-county-voters-cast-early-ballots-mckinney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/484985\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 47% of Collin County voters cast early ballots | McKinney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collin County saw 374,250 voters cast their ballots during the two-week early voting period Oct. 19-30, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collincountytx.gov\/docs\/default-source\/elections\/election-rosters\/totals-by-site-through-october-30-2026.pdf?sfvrsn=36628a0e_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">county documents show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Latest update<\/p>\n<p>About 46.8% of the county\u2019s registered voters have turned out for the midterm election as of the end of early voting Oct. 30, according to the Collin County Elections Office. Additionally, 9,484 voters cast ballots by mail as of Nov. 1, county documents show. The county has 799,130 registered voters, a representative of the Collin County Elections Office confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2022 midterm elections, Collin County had 264,741 people participate in early voting, which represented 38.16% of registered Collin County voters at the time, 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>According to early voting election rosters, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collincountytx.gov\/elections\/details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> busiest polling locations during early voting<\/a> were McKinney\u2019s John and Judy Gay Library, Plano\u2019s Davis Library and Allen Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned<\/p>\n<p>Polls open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. on Election Day, Nov. 3. 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 more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collincountytx.gov\/Elections\/polling-locations?electionId=75&amp;scheduleType=ed&amp;electionDesc=November%203,%202026%20Uniform%20Election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">90 polling locations<\/a> 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>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collin County saw 374,250 voters cast their ballots during the two-week early voting period Oct. 19-30, county documents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[61765,46470,960,161403,147224,2065,161404,24610,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-484985","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-midterm-election","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484985","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=484985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}