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Early Voting · October 29, 2026

Tarrant County is showing up — and the early vote is breaking blue

DFW Noise matched the county's own early-voting rosters voter by voter. The turnout is surging past the last midterm, the lines are running up to two hours — and the voters in them lean Democratic.

Voters lined up outside Summerglen Branch Library in Fort Worth
The line at Summerglen Branch Library in north Fort Worth, where voters waited over an hour on Day 1. Photo: Kayla Wilford

FORT WORTH — Day 12 of early voting brought 62,656 in-person ballots in Tarrant County. Through Friday, October 30, 571,950 people have voted in person — running 47% ahead of the last midterm through Day 12 (389,285 in 2022). With mail ballots included, 593,072 ballots were already cast through Friday, October 30.

And voters are waiting for it: WFAA reported waits of up to two hours across Tarrant County on Day 1. The line at Summerglen Branch Library in north Fort Worth ran over an hour on Day 1 — and one voter there, Maria Fernandez Rodriguez, reported waiting exactly two hours on Day 2 before casting her ballot. They stayed in line.

Voters queued outside the library on Day 2 of early voting
Day 2 at the library in Summerfields, north Fort Worth — the two-hour line. Photo: Maria Fernandez Rodriguez

Who is voting

DFW Noise's Early Vote Tracker matches every ballot cast against the county's primary rosters by voter ID. Of the ballots cast so far:

Primary history shows which party's primary ballot a voter pulled — in an open-primary state it's the clearest public signal of how the early electorate leans. It is not a record of how anyone voted in this election; those ballots are secret. Full methodology is on the tracker page.

An early-voting line snaking through a Fort Worth parking lot
"Snaked through the parking lot" — an early-voting line in Fort Worth on Day 2. Photo: Whitney Antwine

Early voting has ended. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 7 AM–7 PM. Any Tarrant County voter can vote at any vote center.

📊 Track the vote daily on the DFW Noise Early Vote Tracker — turnout, pace vs. 2022, the precinct map, and the primary-history breakdown, updated every morning.
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