BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – Nearly 800,000 votes were cast in Bexar County on Election Day, which saw Donald Trump secure the presidency and strengthen Texas’ status as a red state.
Of the 1,295,920 voters registered in Bexar County, 759,397 cast their ballots in the November election. This equates to a voter turnout of 58.7%, according to Bexar County elections officials.
Below is a breakdown of the ballots cast:
- Election Day: 150,392
- Absentee: 32,366
- Early Voting: 576,639
In a Wednesday afternoon press conference, Jacque Callanen, the county’s elections administrator, said the office had about a week’s worth of work to dig through provisional, military and mail-in ballots.
Callanen did not expect the ballots to significantly alter any races.
“We don’t have any close races,” Callanen told reporters.
Asked about tracking demographics, specifically around the presidential race numbers in Texas’ largest counties, Callanen said the office works to keep the process fair.
“We try and keep it as nonpartisan as we possibly can,” she said. “We don’t track our voters by Republican or Democrat.”
You can watch Callanen’s full press conference in the video player below:
Notable races across Bexar County and Texas largely saw victories by Republican candidates.
The race for U.S. Senate between Ted Cruz and Colin Allred, one of the state’s hotly contested battles, saw Cruz comfortably top Allred by 10 percentage points.
Trump experienced his best race in Texas, turning several formally blue border counties, including Starr County, which sided with Trump and ended a 132-year streak of voting for Democrats.
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