Montgomery County Has Cast 121,119 Ballots Already. Early Voting Ends Friday, and Election Day Works Differently.
By The Magnolia Standard · October 27, 2026
Four days of early voting are left. After Friday, the choice of where to vote goes away.
By the end of Monday, Montgomery County had counted 121,119 ballots for the November 3 election. That is 113,540 people who voted in person at an early voting site and 7,579 mail ballots the county had received.
The county lists 488,086 registered voters. So roughly one in four has already voted, with four days of early voting still to go.
The pace is ahead of the last midterm. The first seven days this year brought 104,054 ballots. In 2022, the first seven days brought 78,075, according to Community Impact's comparison of the two elections.
The two Magnolia sites
The Magnolia Event Center Annex at 11731 FM 1488 is new as an early voting site this election. Through Monday it had taken 11,925 ballots, fourth among the county's ten sites. The West Montgomery County Community Development Center on Friendship Drive, which the county's daily report lists as "Magnolia," had taken 8,030.
Together that is 19,955. No single site in the county had more. The busiest, listed in the report as Woodlands, had 17,050.
Monday was a heavy day everywhere: 17,065 ballots, counting mail. Only opening day, when more than 5,000 mail ballots were logged at once, was bigger.
Through Friday: any site, longer hours
Early voting runs every day through Friday, October 30, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Any registered Montgomery County voter can use any of the ten main and branch sites. Both Magnolia locations are on the list:
- Magnolia Event Center Annex, 11731 FM 1488, Magnolia 77354, Main Room
- West Montgomery County Community Development Center, 31355 Friendship Drive, Magnolia 77355, Green Room
- Lone Star Community Center, 2500 Lone Star Parkway, Montgomery 77356, Cissy Boulware Room (the county notes it is not the Lone Star Convention Center in Conroe)
Tuesday, November 3: your precinct only
Election Day is not early voting with a different date. The county's Election Day map assigns polling places by precinct, and on November 3 a voter casts a ballot at the polling place for the precinct where they are registered. A site that worked last week may not be yours on Tuesday.
Polls in Texas are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day.
The county's voter lookup at elections.mctx.org shows a voter's precinct and that voter's own sample ballot. It takes a name and a date of birth. The county's site also lists the forms of identification it accepts at the polls.
What is on it
The ballot runs from statewide offices down to county races. Our September 1 story and September 25 story covered one race most people skip, the elected seats on the appraisal district board, which oversees how property values are set. Our two-column piece on the county judge race laid out both sides.
Editor's note: this ran as straight reporting rather than the two-column format. Vote counts from the county's own report, polling hours and places, and the rules for where to vote are settled public record. Nothing here takes a position on any candidate or on how anyone should vote.
Sources: Montgomery County Elections, Daily Count of Early Voters (Unofficial) for the November 3, 2026 joint election, covering October 19 through October 26, for every ballot total, the per-site counts and the mail ballot figures; the county's early voting locations page for the dates, hours, sites, rooms, the "New Location" marking on the Annex, and the registered voter count of 488,086 as of October 25; and the county's Election Day polling place map for the same election, which is drawn by precinct. Community Impact, October 26, 2026, for the 2022 first-week comparison and the precinct rule on Election Day. Texas Election Code section 41.031 for Election Day poll hours. Site totals are the county's unofficial daily figures and can be revised. Corrections to editor@themagnoliastandard.news.