{"id":364,"date":"2026-07-26T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paperfoldsnews.com\/staging\/9696\/tipton-county-early-voting-already-exceeds-may-primary-turnout\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:05:00","slug":"tipton-county-early-voting-already-exceeds-may-primary-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paperfoldsnews.com\/staging\/9696\/tipton-county-early-voting-already-exceeds-may-primary-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipton County early voting already exceeds May primary turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More people have already voted in Tipton County than turned out for the entire May county primary \u2014 and there&#8217;s still nearly a week of early voting left before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Through the first seven days of early voting, 3,639 ballots had been cast in Tipton County, according to the Tennessee Secretary of State&#8217;s Division of Elections. With 40,145 registered voters, that&#8217;s about 9.1% turnout so far.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, turnout for the May 5 county primary finished at 8.01%.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Early voting is running well ahead of recent elections<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This year&#8217;s pace is significantly ahead of the last two comparable election cycles.<\/p>\n<p>After seven days of early voting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2026: 3,639 voters<\/li>\n<li>2022: 1,579 voters<\/li>\n<li>2018: 2,318 voters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Compared to 2022, Tipton County has recorded 2,060 more early voters, a 130.46% increase.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to 2018, the county is up 1,321 voters, or 56.99%.<\/p>\n<p>Among Tennessee&#8217;s 95 counties, Tipton ranks 10th in percentage growth over 2022 and seventh over 2018.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Turnout has remained steady<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Tipton County has averaged about 520 voters per day through the first seven days of early voting.<\/p>\n<p>Opening day brought the largest turnout with 768 voters. Saturday, July 18 saw 254 voters, while the remaining weekdays ranged from 440 to 587 voters.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than seeing a large spike followed by a slowdown, turnout has remained relatively consistent throughout the first week.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>If the current pace continues<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If Tipton County continues averaging about 520 voters per day through the remaining six days of early voting, the county would finish with approximately 6,760 early votes.<\/p>\n<p>That would represent about 16.8% of the county&#8217;s 40,145 registered voters before Election Day even begins, and would more than double the May 5 turnout before polls open on Aug. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Participation during the final week of early voting and on Election Day will determine the final turnout.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Republican county, but Democratic turnout is growing fastest<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Of Tipton County&#8217;s 3,639 early voters, 2,804 requested Republican ballots and 785 requested Democratic ballots \u2014 a roughly 77%-to-22% split that leans more Republican than the state as a whole, where the divide runs closer to 65%-32%.<\/p>\n<p>But the growth is coming from both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Republican turnout in the county is up 112.3% over 2022 and 53.8% over 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic turnout, while a smaller slice of the electorate, is growing even faster: up 245.8% over 2022 and 66.7% over 2018 \u2014 the third- and fourth-largest percentage increases, respectively, of any county&#8217;s Democratic turnout in the state after the first week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The trend extends across Tennessee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tipton County isn&#8217;t the only place seeing increased voter participation.<\/p>\n<p>Statewide, 299,116 people voted during the first seven days of early voting.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>90,750 more voters than at the same point in 2022 \u2014 an increase of 43.55%.<\/li>\n<li>24,489 more voters than at the same point in 2018 \u2014 an increase of 8.92%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the Secretary of State&#8217;s data, 68 counties are ahead of their 2022 early voting pace, while 40 counties have exceeded their 2018 pace through the first seven days of early voting.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting continues through Saturday, Aug. 1, ahead of the Thursday, Aug. 6 election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow the numbers yourself.<\/strong> Paper Folds News is tracking Tipton County&#8217;s early voting totals every day through Election Day at <em>Vote Tipton<\/em>, our interactive voter guide. You&#8217;ll also find candidate Q&amp;As, our blind candidate quiz, and campaign finance reports for every race on the ballot. Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperfoldsnews.com\/votetipton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paperfoldsnews.com\/votetipton<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people have already voted in Tipton County than turned out for the entire May county primary \u2014 and there&#8217;s still nearly a week of early voting left before Election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79],"tags":[149,185,25,152,73,155,187,35,215,156,188],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-politics","tag-2026-primary-election","tag-august-6-primary","tag-covington-tn","tag-early-voting","tag-local-elections","tag-tennessee-elections","tag-tennessee-secretary-of-state","tag-tipton-county","tag-vote-tipton","tag-voter-turnout","tag-west-tennessee"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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