We looked at this year’s voter turnout for 11 counties and compared them to numbers we found from the 2018 election.
TEXAS, USA — Another election season is coming to a close in Texas.
A few voting ballots are still being counted on Wednesday, but the winners have been projected or called for a majority of key positions, including governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.
So how many people in the Dallas-Fort Worth area made it to the voting booth? And how has voter turnout changed over the last few years? That’s what we wanted to find out.
The Texas Secretary of State website shows the election results for current and previous election from the last 30 years. The WFAA team compared the turnout for the 2022 Midterm Election to numbers we could find from the 2018 Election.
The numbers we found for 2022 were recorded when 99% of all Texas polling locations were reporting their ballots. Of the 5,915 locations that were counted, three of them weren’t finished counting.
For the 2018 election, we looked at the turnout based on votes for the U.S. Senate election.