An emergency services district will be created to serve residents in select unincorporated parts of Collin County, according to unofficial final vote totals from the Collin County Elections Office.
The specifics
With all 91 vote centers reporting, 6,594 voters are in favor of creating Collin County Emergency Services District No. 1, representing 72.57% of votes cast. Votes cast in opposition to the ballot measure total 2,492, or 27.43%.
Final unofficial voting results show that 117,510 Collin County voters turned out to cast a ballot in the Nov. 4 election. The turnout represents 15.83% of Collin County’s 742,114 registered voters.
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Updated 11:08 p.m., Nov. 4
The details
With 71 of 91 vote centers reporting, 5,636 voters are in favor of creating Collin County Emergency Services District No. 1, representing 73.83% of votes cast. Votes cast in opposition to the ballot measure total 1,998, or 26.17%.
What’s next?
Community Impact will update this article as more Election Day vote totals are released
Updated 10:15 p.m., Nov. 4
Unofficial voting results from Collin County show voters maintaining support for the creation of an emergency services district in select parts of the county.
By the numbers
With 35 of 91 vote centers reporting, 4,892 voters are in favor of creating Collin County Emergency Services District No. 1, representing 74.6% of votes cast. Votes cast in opposition to the ballot measure total 1,666, or 25.5%.
Posted 9:35 p.m., Nov. 4
Unofficial voting results from Collin County show voters maintaining support for the creation of an emergency services district in select parts of the county.
The specifics
With 19 of 91 vote centers reporting, 4,049 voters are in favor of creating Collin County Emergency Services District No. 1, representing 74.55% of votes cast.
Votes cast in opposition to the ballot measure total 1,382, or 25.45%.
Posted 7:05 p.m., Nov. 4
Collin County has released early voting totals for an election that, if passed, would create an emergency services district in select unincorporated parts of the county.
What you need to know
According to unofficial early voting results, 74.87% of voters are in favor of the creation of Collin County Emergency Services District No. 1, or the ESD, with 3,399 votes cast.
Voters who oppose the measure total 1,141, or 25.13% of votes cast, according to the early results from the Collin County Elections Office.
If approved, the ballot measure would create an emergency services district, a mechanism created by the Texas Legislature to provide fire protection and ambulance service in the unincorporated areas of the county, according to Collin County’s website.
Adding to that, the created district would have an associated property tax that would be used to fund fire protection and ambulance services to residents within the district’s boundaries. The district’s boundaries would include the extraterritorial jurisdiction of multiple cities, including McKinney, Prosper, Celina, Melissa and Princeton, among others. For a full map of the boundaries of the proposed district, click here.
The context
Collin County’s commissioners unanimously approved calling for the election at a July 28 meeting—roughly six months after the county judge received a petition calling for the creation of the ESD.
Currently, there are over 350 ESDs in Texas that provide fire protection and ambulance service in unincorporated areas of counties, whether by contracting for services with city fire departments or by creating their own fire departments, according to the county’s website.
Rather than operating its own fire department or ambulance service, the emergency response services funded by the proposed ESD would be provided through contracts with cities and volunteer fire departments, the county’s website states.
If approved, the district’s first budget cycle and fire service contracts would begin Oct. 1, 2026. The ESD commissioners would be appointed by the Collin County Commissioners Court, who will also set the initial tax rate for the ESD, according to the county’s website. The initial tax rate cannot exceed $0.10 per $100 in assessed value, and subsequent tax rates and budgets will be set and adopted by the district’s board of commissioners.
What else?
In early voting, there were 56,982 ballots cast at polling sites countywide and another 1,516 ballots cast by mail, which represents 7.88% of Collin County's 742,114 registered voters.
Totals from ballots cast Nov. 4 have yet to be released. Polls closed at 7 p.m., although voters who were in line at 7 p.m. were still able to cast ballots. In addition to the ESD 1 election, other ballot items included 17 proposed amendments to the state constitution.
