Official tallies for the first week of early voting in Comal County were posted to social media today and according to numbers crunched by Jerrie Champlin with the League of the Women Voters of Comal Area (LWVCA), 24.3% of the county’s 152,424 registered voters or 37,031 residents cast ballots Monday, Oct. 19 – Sunday, Oct. 25.
There were 8,035 in-person ballots cast this weekend, Oct. 24-25, and 155 mail-in ballots received.
Cumulative numbers include 37,031 ballots cast at the county’s six vote centers and 2,519 mail-in ballots, which is a turnout of approximately 25.9% of the county’s 152,424 registered voters.
Overall, there was a 2.6% increase in ballots cast during this first week of early voting for the 2026 midterms compared to the first week of the 2022 midterms.
In the 2022 midterms, 30,372 ballots were cast during the first week for a 23.3% turnout of 130,109 registered voters.
By comparison, 36.9% of the county’s 143,696 registered voters cast ballots during the first week of early voting in the 2024 Presidential Election.
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