Tuesday was Election Day in Lubbock County, Texas and across the United States.

With races for President of the United States, Senate, House of Representatives and a host of local issues on the ballot, voter turnout was high, according to Lubbock County election officials.

Polls closed at 7 pm and final results arrived locally shortly before midnight.

This is what happened in Lubbock County on Tuesday.

Election Day Guide: What’s on the ballot, where to vote in Lubbock

Midnight | The final results, although unofficial, confirm the results of early voting

With final, but unofficial, results tallied for Lubbock County, the results are largely the same as the early voting results.

Cary Shaw has unseated incumbent Democratic Lubbock County Commissioner Gilbert Flores with 53% of the vote.

Lubbock’s road bond passed with 53% in favor, and each of Frenship ISD’s three proposals passed.

Roosevelt ISD’s $58.5 million bond election received a total of 2,096 total votes. Those against the bond represented almost 53%, or 1,109 votes.

Residents of the Highland Oaks neighborhood in Lubbock County voted in favor of annexation to the city of Lubbock with 69% in favor and 31% against. Just under 500 voters cast ballots in that election.

-Alex Driggars and Alana Edgin

21:20 | Tepper takes a big lead in the HD 84 race

Republican state Rep. Carl Tepper took an early lead over his Democratic opponent in his bid for reelection to the Lubbock County-based HD 84 seat, according to early voting results from Tuesday’s general election.

Tepper, who was first elected to HD 84 in 2022, received about 63.6% of about 40,000 early votes, compared to 36.4 percent for Lubbock Democratic barista Noah Lopez.

Tepper is an Air Force veteran, commercial real estate developer and businessman who said he is eager to begin his second term representing Lubbock in the House of Representatives.

State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, faced no challenger for re-election to his HD 83 seat.

– Adam D. Young

21:10 | Republican Shaw Takes Lead in Flores Lubbock County Democratic Race

Republican Cary Shaw has taken an early voting lead over incumbent Democratic County Commissioner Gilbert Flores in the race for Lubbock County Precinct 3 commissioner.

Early voting tallies show Shaw ahead of Flores, the only Democrat on the Lubbock County Commissioners Court, by 900 votes.

Shaw garnered about 54 percent of the 12,596 votes cast during the early voting period.

The district is made up of the northern and eastern parts of the city of Lubbock and the northeastern part of the county, including Idalou.

—Gabriel Monte

21 hours | Early voting favors French proposals, rejects Roosevelt bond

Lubbock County early voting results show voters support all three ballot items for Frenship ISD with the following breakdown:

• Proposition A: 53.17% in favor.

• Proposition B: 56.22% in favor.

• Proposition C: 51.82% in favor.

However, on the opposite side of the county, early results show 51.62% of voters oppose Roosevelt ISD’s proposed bond.

—Mateo Rosiles

8:30 p.m. | The first returns favor the approval of road bonds

Lubbock voters are leaning toward approving Proposition A, a $103.4 million road bond to address seven road construction projects in the city, according to unofficial early voting results.

About 53.5% of early voters voted for the bond proposal, and 47.5% voted against it.

—Alex Driggars

19:45 | Lubbock County Courthouse lit up in red, white and blue

Newly installed architectural lighting bathed the Lubbock County Courthouse in color on election night, alternating between red, white and blue as officials waited for ballots to arrive at the nearby elections office downtown.

—Alex Driggars

7:30 p.m. | How to Watch Live Vote Tabulation in Lubbock

Texas state law requires counties with a population of 100,000 or more to stream live surveillance camera feeds of ballot counting and storage to their website. The Texas Legislature passed the law in 2021 in an effort to combat voter fraud and ballot tampering.

Lubbock County live streams are available here.

—Alex Driggars

7:00 p.m. | The polls are closed, the results will begin to appear

Polls throughout Texas, except those in the Mountain Time Zone, are closed. Voters who were in line at 7 pm will still be able to cast their ballot.

Lubbock County early voting results are expected to be released shortly, and Election Day results will be released later tonight.

Keep checking this page for the latest results.

—Alex Driggars

16:30 | Voter turnout exceeds 2020 totals

As of 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, 14,973 voters were registered at the polls in Lubbock County, according to an update from the county elections office.

On Election Day 2020, which saw turnout reduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 14,034 voters registered for the entire time polls were open. In 2016, 21,973 Lubbock County voters cast their ballots on Election Day.

The total number of Lubbock County voters who showed up to the polls during early voting and at 4:30 pm on Election Day was 114,081, surpassing the total turnout of 110,208 in 2020. Total voter turnout in 2016 was 93,891.

About 57.5% of Lubbock County’s 198,548 registered voters turned out as of 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

—Alex Driggars

1:00 p.m. | Lunchtime sees increased activity at polling stations

AJ reporters traveling through Lubbock County noticed increased activity between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at voting sites and lines began to form.

—Mateo Rosiles

10am | Polls See Healthy Numbers of Voters on Election Day

Traveling to the Roosevelt ISD polling place in eastern Lubbock County and several other voting sites around Lubbock on Tuesday morning, traffic seemed steady. But no lines were forming yet. AJ reporters travel around Lubbock County monitoring polling places.

—Mateo Rosiles

7am | Polls are open throughout Texas, in Lubbock County

Polls opened at 7 a.m. on Election Day across Texas. They will close tonight at 7 pm.

Lubbock County voters can go to any of the 50 vote centers throughout the county to cast their ballot. Those locations can be found here.

Election officials expect long lines at most locations. Anyone who is in line before 7 pm will be able to cast their vote.

—Alex Driggars

Early voting turnout hits 20-year high in county

More Lubbock County voters voted early in the past two weeks than in any presidential election since at least 2004, according to data from the Lubbock County Elections Office.

The electoral office reported that 99,108 people voted between October 21 and November 21. 1.

This surpasses the total of 96,174 early votes in 2020, when voters had an extra week to cast an early vote due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lubbock County will be home to 198,548 registered voters in 2024, according to the latest figures from the elections office. That means about 49.9% of registered voters voted before Election Day.

—Alex Driggars

This article originally appeared in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Lubbock election results: Here’s what happened on Election Day