There are 24 article(s) tagged early voter turnout:

• November 2024

  • Early vote turnout going into last weekend still lags 2020

    The last weekend of early voting comes with the use of statewide campaign tours to boost candidates in district and statewide races.

    By Bill Dries November 06, 2024

  • Political Roundup: Early voting tops 175k, and Nordstrom-White on school vouchers

    Democratic and Republican partisans met Saturday, Oct. 26, on the parking lot of the county’s most popular early voting site while Trump supporters waved banners on Poplar Avenue. Four days of early voting remain.

    By Bill Dries November 06, 2024

  • Early voting nears end in presidential general election

    The last day to vote early in the presidential general election is Thursday, Oct. 31. Here’s a look at turnout so far and comparisons to other elections in this cycle.

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    By Bill Dries November 06, 2024

  • Political Roundup: Early voting turnout, Feds at the polls, referendum fine print

    Early voting had its biggest turnout (excluding absentee ballots) on Halloween — the final day of the 14-day early-voting period. It is still behind the pre-election day turnout four years ago.

    By Bill Dries November 06, 2024

• February 2024

  • Nearly 27,000 cast early ballots ahead of March 5 primary election day

    The 12-day early voting period saw Democratic primary turnout drop to less than half what it was four years ago while Republican primary turnout was off by almost 1,500 from 2020.

    By Bill Dries February 29, 2024

• November 2022

  • Early voters’ numbers hint at Election Day turnout

    More than 120,000 Shelby County voters cast early or absentee ballots during the 14-day early voting period that ended Nov. 3. Here’s what it might mean for total turnout including who shows up at the polls on election day.

    By Bill Dries November 07, 2022

  • Political Roundup: Early voting, Cohen & Kustoff, Memphis mayor’s race

    Thursday is the last day to vote early ahead of next Tuesday’s election day, as congressmen David Kustoff and Steve Cohen predict who will control the House. Plus: Notes on school funding, MLGW and the first mayoral forum.

    By Bill Dries November 05, 2022

• October 2022

  • Political Roundup: Early voting hits 20,000; Jason Martin campaigns in Collierville

    The county’s early voter total through the first four days of the period is tops in the state. 

    By Bill Dries October 26, 2022

• May 2022

  • County primary election day offers more decisions for Democrats than Republicans

    For Republicans, there is only one contested race to be decided out of 23 on the primary ballot — the District 4 County Commission primary between incumbent Brandon Morrison and challenger Jordan Carpenter. 

    By Bill Dries May 03, 2022

  • Political Roundup: End of early voting, the Toney challenge, Moody’s support

    The Political Roundup has the details for last-minute early voting as well as a follow-up on Brandon Toney’s bid to get back on the August Republican primary ballot in state Senate District 31.

    By Bill Dries May 03, 2022

• April 2022

  • Early voting expected to increase in final four days

    Almost 16,000 Shelby Countians had voted early through Saturday. Early voting ends Thursday and the final four days of the two-week voting period usually record the heaviest turnout judging by past elections in the same cycle.

    By Bill Dries April 25, 2022

  • Early voter turnout nears 4,000 mark

    With all 26 sites open Monday, April 18, for the first time in the two-week period, more than 2,800 of the 3,900 early voters in the first four days of the period cast their ballots in the Democratic county primaries.

    By Bill Dries April 19, 2022

• November 2020

  • Shelby County early and absentee voters mostly women, Memphians, over 50

    A new voting app breaks down who the early voters were. The broader turnout numbers show more than half of the county’s registered voters have already cast their ballots.

    By Bill Dries November 02, 2020

• October 2020

  • Growth in voters and voter turnout comes with questions

    The founder of one of the get out the vote groups working locally says on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast that higher turnout is part of a national trend. But detailed numbers also show ongoing problems in access to the vote.

    By Bill Dries October 24, 2020

  • More than 111,000 cast ballots in first 4 days of early voting

    The total is inexact but ahead of the pace for early voting in the last three presidential elections in Shelby County. Data includes details of who the early voters and absentee voters are and a batch of new voters registered in recent months. 

    By Bill Dries October 19, 2020

• August 2020

  • Voter turnout low through morning rush hour

    Polls opened in Shelby County at 7 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 6, and close at 7 p.m. The ballot is a mix of state and federal primary and local races for a clerk's position and five school board seats. Early voter turnout was almost as high as the total turnout in the same election cycle four years ago but low through the morning rush hour.

    By Bill Dries August 06, 2020

  • Early voting tops 81,000 ahead of Thursday election day

    The early voting period ended Saturday afternoon and includes a larger than usual absentee ballot count. Election day is Thursday with polling places open until 7 p.m.

    By Bill Dries August 03, 2020

  • Early voting countywide tops 62,000 with two days left

    Meanwhile, the hard-fought statewide Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate is being seen by partisans on both sides of the close race as about the conservative movement in the state.

    By Bill Dries August 01, 2020

• July 2020

  • State nears quarter-million mark in early voting

    Shelby County posted the second highest county total for the state through the first six days of early voting. Davidson County, including Nashville, has the highest turnout and, at least for now, is the bluest county in terms of early voters' choices of primaries. Of the state's 95 counties, 92 show Republican majorities in their turnout.

    By Bill Dries July 29, 2020

  • Early voting through five days tops 22,000

    The turnout totals from the Shelby County Election Commission also show the first indications of a massive absentee voter turnout as election officials expect to catch up to a backlog of absentee applications by Friday.

    By Bill Dries July 23, 2020

  • Nearly 8,000 cast ballots in first 2 days of early voting

    Early voting across Shelby County in advance of the Aug. 6 election date resumes Monday, July 20, after the first two days drew nearly 8,000 voters.

    By Bill Dries July 20, 2020

• March 2020

  • Super Tuesday: Here’s the rundown on Shelby County

    Polls across Shelby County are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday with the state's presidential primaries topping the ballot. The presidential campaign Memphis voters saw for the past year has been mostly on the Democratic side with a few appearances by the contenders themselves.

    By Bill Dries March 03, 2020

• February 2020

  • Shelby County early voter turnout tops 2016 turnout and leads state

    The local turnout in advance of the March 3 election day accounted for 12.8% of the early vote statewide. Most of the Shelby County early vote was in the Democratic primaries for president and General Sessions Court Clerk.

    By Bill Dries February 26, 2020

  • Shelby County early vote tops 21,000 with two days to go

    The total is ahead of the early vote at this point four years ago but the difference narrowed over the weekend. And Davidson County leads the state's 95 counties in turnout through Saturday.

    By Bill Dries February 24, 2020