Today Is Election Day. Polls Close at 7, and You Vote at Your Own Precinct.
By The Magnolia Standard · November 3, 2026
Early voting ended Friday with close to four in ten Montgomery County voters already counted. Everyone else votes today, at one assigned place, until 7 p.m.
Montgomery County closed early voting on Friday with 192,952 ballots for the November 3 election: 184,128 cast in person over the two weeks and 8,824 mail ballots the county had received by then.
The county lists 488,086 registered voters. That puts early turnout just under 40%.
Friday was the busiest day by a wide margin. 21,897 people voted in person on the last day, about 5,000 more than any day before it. The Magnolia Event Center Annex finished with 19,039 ballots and the West Montgomery County Community Development Center on Friendship Drive with 13,237, a combined 32,276 at the two Magnolia sites.
Today: one place, and it is assigned
Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Anyone in line at 7 p.m. still gets to vote. Unlike early voting, a registered voter casts a ballot today only at the polling place for the precinct where they are registered.
The county's voter lookup at elections.mctx.org shows a voter's precinct and sample ballot from a name and date of birth. The county's Election Day polling place list gives every precinct's site. These are the ones in Magnolia, Dobbin and the City of Montgomery, as the county lists them:
- Precinct 9: Dobbin-Dacus Community Center, 695 South FM 1486, Montgomery 77316
- Precinct 13: High Meadow Ranch Golf Club, The Ranch House, 37300 Golf Club Trail, Magnolia 77355 (new location)
- Precinct 18: Magnolia Community Center, 422 Melton Street, Magnolia 77354
- Precinct 19: City of Montgomery City Hall, 101 Old Plantersville Road, Montgomery 77316 (new location)
- Precinct 28: Decker Prairie Elementary, 27427 Decker Prairie Rosehill Road, Magnolia 77355
- Precinct 29: West Montgomery County Community Development Center, 31355 Friendship Drive, Magnolia 77355
- Precinct 30: Magnolia High School library, 14350 FM 1488, Magnolia 77354
- Precinct 65: J. L. Lyon Elementary, 27035 Nichols Sawmill Road, Magnolia 77355
- Precincts 66 and 74: Cedric C. Smith Elementary, 28747 Hardin Store Road, Magnolia 77354 (new location for 66)
- Precinct 76: Westwood Landowners' Association Building, 406 Mackintosh Drive, Magnolia 77354
- Precinct 89: Bear Branch Elementary, 8909 FM 1488, Magnolia 77354
- Precinct 91: Magnolia West High School library, 42202 FM 1774, Magnolia 77355
- Precinct 97: Magnolia Event Center Annex, 11731 FM 1488, Magnolia 77354
- Precinct 113: Decker Prairie Community Center, 32434 Decker Prairie Road, Magnolia 77355
- Precinct 115: Audubon Elementary, 40205 Audubon Parkway, Magnolia 77354 (new location)
- Precinct 116: Nichols Sawmill Elementary, 28750 Nichols Sawmill Road, Magnolia 77355 (new location)
- Precinct 117: Magnolia Cowboy Church, 23245 Glenmont Estates, Magnolia 77355 (new location)
Six of those are marked new this year. A voter who went to a school gym or a community center in 2024 should check the list before driving over.
What to bring
Texas asks for one of seven forms of photo identification: a Texas driver license, a Texas Election Identification Certificate, a Texas personal ID card, a Texas handgun license, a U.S. military ID card with a photo, a U.S. citizenship certificate with a photo, or a U.S. passport book or card. An ID can be expired up to four years. For voters 70 and older, any length of expiration is accepted. A voter who does not have one and cannot reasonably get one can sign a reasonable impediment declaration at the polls and show a supporting document such as a utility bill, bank statement or voter registration certificate. The state's VoteTexas.gov lists the full rules.
What is on the ballot
The county's ballot runs 21 pages across all its versions, and no voter sees all of it. The top is the same for everyone: U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller, land commissioner, agriculture commissioner, railroad commissioner, and seats on the Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals.
Below that it depends on where you live: State Board of Education, state senate and state house districts, two appeals courts, district judges, county judge, county courts at law, the probate court, county clerk, treasurer, two county commissioner seats, justices of the peace, and the three at-large seats on the Montgomery Central Appraisal District board, which we covered in September. Some precincts also carry school trustee races, city council seats and utility district elections with bond propositions.
The sample ballot in the county's lookup shows exactly which of those a given voter will see.
Tonight
The county posts unofficial results on its elections website after the polls close, starting with early and mail ballots and adding precincts as they report. Unofficial totals can change until the canvass. Our Friday edition will carry the Greater Magnolia results.
Editor's note: this ran as straight reporting. Vote counts, polling places, poll hours and ID rules are settled public record. Nothing here takes a position on any candidate, proposition or how anyone should vote.
Sources: Montgomery County Elections, Daily Count of Early Voters (Unofficial) for the November 3, 2026 joint election, through October 30, for every early vote total and the per-site counts; the county's Election Day polling locations list for every precinct site, room and "New Location" marking; the county's early voting page for the registered voter count of 488,086 as of October 25; and the county's November 3 sample ballot for the list of offices. Texas Election Code sections 41.031 and 41.032 for poll hours and voters in line at closing; VoteTexas.gov for the photo ID list and the reasonable impediment rule. Counts are the county's unofficial figures and can be revised. Corrections to editor@themagnoliastandard.news.