Texans will head back to the polls Tuesday, March 1, for the 2022 primary election. Each party will choose its candidate for seven statewide seats, including governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, and several local races at the county level.
Each party will choose its candidate for seven statewide seats — governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, land commissioner, agriculture commissioner, comptroller and one of three seats on the Railroad Commission — and several local races at the county level.
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Through the last day of early voting on Friday, 19,680 ballots had been cast early in Lubbock County, according to the elections office. That’s less than the 22,747 ballots cast in early voting during the primaries in 2020, which features a race for president. But that’s more early votes cast than in 2018, when 15,430 ballots were cast.
For this election, there are 183,224 registered voters in Lubbock County.
If no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the primary, the top two vote-getters will compete in a runoff May 24. Texas is an open-primary state, so voters can decide every two years whether to pick Republican or Democratic nominees (or hold out and go to third-party conventions).
This will be the first election in which Texans will be voting in new political districts. Polling cites will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Lubbock County Elections Office downtown and locations across the county.
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Voters can check if they are registered through the Texas Secretary of State’s website at www.sos.state.tx.us. To do so, they will need to:
- Provide a Texas driver’s license number and date of birth.
- Provide first and last name, date of birth and what county they reside in.
- Provide date of birth and Voter Unique Identifier, which appears on your voter registration certificate.
For more information on voting in Lubbock County, visit the county elections website at www.votelubbock.org