Texas Early Voting Turnout Exceeds 2016 Total Votes Cast in Lone Star State

Voters enter and exit the Austin City Hall during the presidential primary in Austin, Texas, on March 3, 2020. Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images

The number of Texans who have cast early votes has already surpassed the total votes cast in the Lone Star state in the 2016 general election, with the Texas joining Hawaii in becoming the first states to hit this milestone.

So far, over 9.7 million Texans have voted, according to the University of Florida’s Elections Project, a turnout-tracking database. In 2016, voter turnout in Texas was 8,969,226, or 78.2 percent of eligible registered voters, according to figures from the Texas secretary of state’s office.