By the Numbers: Turnout in 2018

41st Where mid-term election turnout in Texas ranked among the 50 states. A record number of Texans cast ballots in last month’s gubernatorial, or mid-term, election. Nearly 8.4M Texans voted for one of the three U.S. Senate candidates, representing 53% of registered...

By the Numbers: Special Election Turnout

6.8% Average turnout for special legislative and congressional elections and runoffs not coinciding with an even-year general election since 2013. In the last five years, special elections have been ordered to fill vacancies for 15 legislative and one congressional...

By the Numbers: O’Rourke and Clinton

198 The number of counties where U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-El Paso) received a higher percent of the vote than 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (D). O’Rourke received 48.3% of the vote statewide, based on unofficial returns, a 5.0% improvement over Clinton’s...

By the Numbers: Early Voting Growing in Popularity

73% Percent of 2016 general election voters who cast their votes early. As Texans continue shattering early voting records for a gubernatorial election cycle, it may be worth remembering that early voters have been casting an ever greater share of votes since...

By the Numbers: SD19 Runoff’s Place in Recent History

162% Increase in the number of votes Pete Flores received in Tuesday’s runoff election compared to the July 31 special election. There have been 26 special runoff elections since 2000 for legislative and congressional seats. The winning candidates received more votes...

By the Numbers: Bexar County Early Voting

34% Percent of in-person early voters in the SD19 runoff in Bexar Co. cast their ballots at the John Igo Library in northwest San Antonio. That early voting location is surrounded by precincts in which Pleasanton retired game warden Pete Flores (R) won a plurality of...

By the Numbers: Changing the SD19 Outcome

13.3% Hypothetical turnout in Rep. Roland Gutierrez’s (D-San Antonio) current House district that would have sent him to a runoff against Republican Pete Flores instead of former Rep. and U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego (D-Alpine). Gallego received not quite 1,200 more...

By the Numbers: Generation Gap

29% Percentage gap between respondents aged 18-29 and respondents aged 65 and older who said they were “extremely enthusiastic” about “voting in the 2018 elections,” according to the latest Univ. of Texas/Texas Tribune poll (PDF). Younger Texans simply do not vote at...

By the Numbers: Breaking 20

157 Number of counties in which David Alameel, the 2014 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, failed to receive at least 20% of the vote. U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-El Paso), the Democratic nominee challenging U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R), recently completed a rare quest. He...

By the Numbers: Runoff Winning Percentages

90% Winning percentage of runoff candidates who finished 15% or more ahead of their challenger in the primary election, since 2002. There have been 144 “open” primary runoff elections for statewide, legislative, Board of Education and federal offices since 2002...

By the Numbers: Democratic Women

92% Percent of Democratic primary races featuring (1) no incumbent and (2) at least one male and one female candidate that a woman won outright or advanced to a runoff. In this analysis, we’re looking at Democratic primary races for Congress, statewide office, the...