If the trend holds over the last two days of early voting on Monday And Tuesday, more people will vote in the June 13 Runoff Election than voted in the May 9 General Election. Voters are choosing between interim Mayor Ivy Taylor and former state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte for mayor, and District 7 residents are choosing between incumbent Councilmember Cris Medina and challenger Mari Aguirre-Rodriguez.
After six days of early voting, 42,798 people have voted. At that rate, the final early vote will exceed the 52,859 early votes cast in the first round. Only 97,697 people, 12% of the city’s 693,925 registered voters, participated in the May 9 General Election.
The highest runoff turnout in contemporary city elections occurred in 2005 when Phil Hardberger defeated Julían Castro for mayor, and the winners of two council seats were decided in the runoff. 129,991 people, or 18.8% of registered voters, turned out. That election also drew a higher turnout in the runoff than the first round of voting.
At the current rate of voting, more than 100,000 people will vote in the June 13 runoff, improving turnout by a few percentage points at most. Although the city’s population has grown from 1.2 million to more than 1.4 million from 2005-15, the number of registered voters is about the same.
Polls will be open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m Monday and Tuesday, and from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. on June 13. Click here for early voting locations. Voters must show a Texas driver’s license, passport or other legal identification with their photo.
Over eight days of early voting in the May 9 General Election, 52,859 votes were cast. That represented 62% of the 85,378 total votes cast. A little more 12% of the city’s 693,925 registered voters participated in total.
Once again, the Northside early voting locations are attracting far greater number of voters than the inner city locations. Click here for the early voting poll site totals through the end of voting Saturday.
“We’re happy that these numbers are going up, we are ahead of the first election,” said Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacquelyn Callanen. “(It’s) a healthy jump. That’s terrific. We’re really pleased with that.”
Library polling location.
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Any idea where the highest voting is coming from the early voting sites?
Brook Hollow Library and Wonderland/Crossroads Mall.
Typically, high early voting benefits an incumbent, but considering last go… LVP is pretty happy about this I’m sure.
Probably people getting it out of the way.
Having so few make the decisions for so many due to voter apathy is disgusting and even a possible 25% jump is paltry.
I eagerly await the day when voting happens each time I log into the net.
The days of online citizen referendums and mandatory voting can’t come soon enough.
The Body of Christ needs to stand firm & United. Go vote!!!
This race is tracking with 2005 where the second place finisher in the general election (Hardberger) was buoyed to victory in the runoff by Northside voters who came out in droves during the runoff to support his campaign. In the 2015 election Taylor is in the same position and, based on numbers and maps Sophia Parafina has shown, is seeing large turnouts in precincts she won and in the Northside. LVP precincts are almost anemic in turnout.
Thank you for including the link to the early voting sites in your post.
Yes…done!
LVP is going to get rolled. and i say this as someone who already voted for LVP.