Dallas County’s big blue wave may have swept nearly every countywide race, but in statewide races, it didn’t help the math much.
The last report from the Dallas County Elections Department, which was produced at 5 a.m., shows that 623,306 voters cast ballots. That is not quite 44 percent of the county’s 1,422,849 registered voters. (Note: the total number of registered voters may differ on the county’s election website, but county elections chief Michael Scarpello says that’s due to a clerical error on the part of the third-party vendor that maintains the DallasCountyVotes.org website.)
According to historical election results, 66 percent of the county’s 1,400,730 registered voters cast ballots in the 2020 presidential election. In the last midterm election, in 2018, about 55 percent of the county’s 1,338,788 registered voters went to the polls.
We’ll have more information after the votes are canvassed, which happens in 10-14 days, but here’s what we’re seeing at first look: