Day One of Week Two is in the can:
Year Dem GOP
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2008 81,843 28,773
2012 20,058 41,447
2016 38,547 55,228
For your reference, the 2016 totals are here, and the 2012 totals are here. I don’t have daily EVPA totals from the Harris County Clerk for 2008, so my reference for those numbers is the SOS archive for 2008, with the Day One Dem totals here and the Day One GOP totals here. EV totals for the 15 biggest counties statewide for the first six days (i.e., through Sunday) are here. I think I had under-calculated the values I reported yesterday – honestly, sometimes this gets a little confusing – but I double-checked the numbers for today, so all should be fine now.
So with the first week in – and the caveat that the first week was six days this year and 2008 but seven days in 2012 – I thought I’d take a look outside Harris County as well. Here are the first week totals – i.e., through Sunday – for the ten most populous counties, as per the Secretary of State’s early voting archives:
Democratic
County 2008 2012 2016
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Harris 66,756 17,635 32,211
Dallas 49,485 11,577 25,293
Tarrant 35,144 6,825 17,033
Bexar 42,198 11,622 21,744
Travis 36,890 6,988 20,369
Collin 15,155 1,330 6,185
El Paso 23,794 14,563
Denton 11,180 763 5,145
Fort Bend 13,581 1,820 5,243
Hidalgo 25,564 23,579 21,662
Republican
County 2008 2012 2016
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Harris 23,851 36,612 44,844
Dallas 13,770 13,813 26,135
Tarrant 14,416 18,477 30,918
Bexar 14,033 15,971 18,505
Travis 7,396 7,768 9,207
Collin 9,756 11,247 17,017
El Paso 4,406 3,108
Denton 6,348 8,892 16,234
Fort Bend 7,344 10,804 8,520
Hidalgo 1,494 2,063 2,899
The El Paso numbers for 2016 are weird – for each primary, all of two votes were recorded for Sunday, and even if assume a more normal total, things look decidedly under where you’d expect them to be. As such, I skipped them for 2016. Some of the variations are interesting, but without knowing the early voting tendencies and trends in these counties, I’m hesitant to draw any conclusions. Even for Harris County, remember that most of the vote came on Election Day for the primaries. At this point I’m mostly interested in seeing how much the daily totals tick up. Have you voted yet?