Derek Ryan posted the following chart depicting who voted on the Texas Constitutional Amendments in November 2023.
I decided to perform a similar study using data that I collected on registered voters in Travis County precinct 450. The data included all registered voters who voted in the 2022 Democratic Primary election. I then used the data from the Texas Secretary of State to determine who among the 2022 Democratic Primary voters also voted in the November 2023 Constitutional Amendment election.
The results are depicted below:
The chart depicts the number of votes cast in Precinct 450, the number and percentage of Democrats who voted on each day of early voting, the total early vote, and the Election Day vote. Democratic voters constituted nearly 40 percent of early voters and nearly 35 percent of Election Day voters in precinct 450. Overall, Democratic Party primary voters in 2022 constituted 37.2 percent of the total votes in precinct 450.
Interestingly, in the purportedly Democratic precinct in Travis County, those voters who could be considered strong Democrats in terms of party affiliation made up fewer than 4 in 10 voters on the constitutional amendments. This would lead one to conclude that special elections on constitutional amendments are not considered partisan elections to registered voters in precinct 450.
