ABC News projects that former President Donald Trump will win Texas.

As the winner of the presidential race, he would capture the state’s 40 electoral votes, making the state a major prize. The polls closed at 7:00 PM local time.

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Texas has voted for the Republican candidate for president since 1980, although former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020 by a margin of about six points.

In the battle for the Senate, Rep. Collin Allred, a Democrat, to unseat incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz.

Democrats sought to flip the Senate seat, tapping Allred as a high-profile candidate to take on Cruz, though political analysts have said they believe the seat is still Republican.

Voters also chose who would fill the 18th Congressional District seat previously held by Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee, who died in July. Her daughter Erica Lee Carter is running in a separate special election to wrap up the final weeks of Jackson Lee’s term.

Counties are colored red or blue when the percentage of expected votes reaches a certain threshold. This threshold varies by state and is based on patterns of past voting reporting and expectations of how the voting will report this year.