The 47 percent of Wharton County’s registered voters casting ballots in the November General Election
painted the county red once again. Wharton County finished the election period with 25,890 registered voters, 12,208 of whom voted. Of those, 8,403 cast ballots during early voting, 542 did so via the mail and 3,263 voted on Election Day. The big races that garnered attention included the top elected offices in the state: governor,
lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller of public accounts, general land office commissioner,
congress, and state senators and representatives. Republicans swept those offices both in local results
and in state and district-wide elections