AUSTIN, TX – As of Monday afternoon, Texas' secretary of state reported more than 16.9 million registered voters in its database, a state record and a huge net gain of 1.8 million registered voters since 2016.
At the start of the early voting period, the Secretary of State reported a net of approximately 1.3 million Texans who have registered to vote since November of 2018 and 1.9 million who have registered since November of 2016.
With natural changes throughout the voting rolls, the Texas Democratic Party estimates that nearly 3 million new voters have been added since 2016. The state of Texas has seen one of its largest upticks in newly registered voters in the nation, with a little over 3 million who have been registered after the 2016 election.
For scale this means about 1 in every 5 voters in Texas in 2020 were not registered in 2016, some of whom may be first time voters, and Texas Democrats are hoping the surge can help flip Texas in the upcoming election.
Previously, in 2016 President Trump won the state by roughly 807,179 votes and Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke lost his statewide race by approximately 214,921 votes.
During the beginning of the pandemic throughout Much and April voter registration numbers lagged across the state as more than 585,000 new voters have been registered since September 1.
Since September 1, the following counties have seen the highest amount of newly registered voters:
- Harris: 55,044
- Dallas: 32,736
- Bexar: 24,501
- Collin: 22,022
- Denton: 19,593
- Tarrant: 17,983
- Travis: 17,466
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