Montgomery County Is Past 170,000 Ballots. Early Voting Closes Tonight at 7.
By The Magnolia Standard · October 30, 2026
More than a third of the county's registered voters have already cast a ballot. Anyone who has not has until 7 p.m. today at any early voting site, or Tuesday at their own precinct.
By the end of Thursday, Montgomery County had counted 170,764 ballots for the November 3 election. Of those, 162,231 were cast in person at early voting sites and 8,533 were mail ballots the county had received.
The county lists 488,086 registered voters. That puts turnout so far at about 35%, with one day of early voting left.
Three days moved the number a long way. On Monday night the count stood at 121,119, the figure in our Tuesday edition. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday added 49,645 more.
Thursday was the busiest day of in-person voting so far: 16,892 people at the polls, a few hundred more than the previous high on Saturday, October 24.
The two Magnolia sites
The Magnolia Event Center Annex at 11731 FM 1488, new as an early voting site this year, had taken 16,452 ballots through Thursday. The West Montgomery County Community Development Center on Friendship Drive, listed in the county's report as "Magnolia," had taken 11,742.
Together, 28,194. The busiest single site in the county, listed as Woodlands, had 24,746. Willis was next at 22,085.
Today: any site, until 7
Friday, October 30, is the last day of early voting. Sites are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and any registered Montgomery County voter can use any of them. The three closest to Magnolia:
- 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
Tuesday: your precinct
On Election Day the rules change. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., but a voter casts a ballot at the polling place assigned to the precinct where they are registered, not at any site they choose. The Annex or Friendship Drive may not be yours on Tuesday.
The county's voter lookup at elections.mctx.org shows a voter's precinct and sample ballot from a name and date of birth, and the county's Election Day map shows each precinct's polling place. Tuesday's story has more on how Election Day works and on the races down the ballot.
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 precinct rule for Election Day 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 29, for every ballot total, the per-site counts, the daily figures and the mail ballot count; the county's early voting locations page for the hours, sites and rooms and the registered voter count of 488,086 as of October 25; and the county's Election Day polling place map, which is drawn by precinct. 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.