Jim Wells County posts unofficial cumulative results for March 3 joint primary

The Jim Wells County Elections Office released an Unofficial Cumulative Results report for the March 3, 2026 joint primary. The county’s tabulation file (run time 8:55 PM, 03/03/2026) was published as a multi‑page PDF that lists vote totals by party and voting method (absentee, early, etc.) and includes detailed precinct tallies.

The report format mirrors prior county output with columns for Absentee, Early Voting, Election Day Voting and Total, plus contest-level Cast Votes, Undervotes and Overvotes lines. The office’s notice names races commonly broken out in those PDFs - Justice, Supreme Court; Sheriff; County Tax Assessor-Collector; District Judge; District Attorney - and says detailed precinct tallies are included in the posted file.

For context, the county’s November 5, 2024 cumulative-results PDF provides a clear example of the layout and the kinds of numbers to expect in the March 3 file, though the 2024 figures are separate events. The 11/05/2024 document header reads: "Cumulative Results Report ELECTION DAY Run Time Run Date 7:40 PM 11/05/2024 JIM WELLS COUNTY, TEXAS GENERAL ELECTION 11/5/2024" and the Justice, Supreme Court, Place 2 block in that file lists: "Jimmy Blacklock REP 52 19.40% 4,872 56.72% 0 0.00% 4,924 55.59%" and "DaSean Jones DEM 216 80.60% 3,718 43.28% 0 0.00% 3,934 44.41%" with "Cast Votes: 268 100.00% 8,590 100.00% 0 0.00% 8,858 100.00%", "Undervotes: 39 646 0 685" and "Overvotes: 0 4 0 4."

The 11/05/2024 file also contains precinct-level contest blocks that illustrate turnout and margins countywide. That document shows the Sheriff contest as: "Joseph 'Guy' Baker REP 65 21.74% 4,645 51.75% 0 0.00% 4,710 50.78%" and "Danny Bueno DEM 234 78.26% 4,331 48.25% 0 0.00% 4,565 49.22%" with "Cast Votes: 299 100.00% 8,976 100.00% 0 0.00% 9,275 100.00%". The County Tax Assessor-Collector block lists "Servando Wolf Garza Jr REP 59 19.80% 4,272 48.24% 0 0.00% 4,331 47.31%" and "Mary Lozano DEM 239 80.20% 4,584 51.76% 0 0.00% 4,823 52.69%." The District Judge, 79th Judicial District entry in that same file shows "Michael Ventura Garcia DEM 219 100.00% 5,591 100.00% 0 0.00% 5,810 100.00%" with corresponding cast votes and undervote totals.

Several anomalies in the 11/05/2024 extract warrant clarification before readers treat those historical numbers as directly comparable to March 3. The 11/05/2024 header repeats: "Unofficial Results Ballots Cast 9547 Precincts Reporting 0 of 28 = 0.00%," and multiple contest rows in that extract show Election Day Voting as "0 0.00%." The 11/05/2024 extract also includes truncated lines - for example "John Devine REP [...] 91 3,587 0 3,678" and a District Attorney entry that cuts off at "Carlos" - which means the full contest-level context is missing from the provided snippet.

I will obtain and review the March 3, 2026 Unofficial Cumulative Results PDF directly from the Jim Wells County Elections Office to confirm contest-level totals and precinct tallies and to resolve header and truncation anomalies evident in the 11/05/2024 sample. Specific verification steps include downloading the March 3 file and confirming the tabulation run time 8:55 PM on 03/03/2026, extracting absentee/early/election-day/total columns for each listed race, and asking the elections administrator whether the posted file is final or remains unofficial. Once those checks are complete, the story will be updated with precinct-by-precinct totals from the March 3 joint primary and any clarifications the elections office provides.