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A gradual trend towards increasing social liberalism in the Democratic Party, however, has turned the state into generally a Republican stronghold. Since 1980, Texas has voted for the Republican nominee in every presidential election. Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president.
Texas's location in the American South and largely in the greater Bible Belt has given the Republican Party the upper hand in the state in recent decades. [92] Trump received the most raw votes for a political candidate ever in Texas, breaking his own record from 2020 by over 500,000. The Democratic vote total fell by 425,000 between 2020 and 2024.
The last time Texas' electoral college voted for a Democrat was in 1976 with the election of Jimmy Carter, according to nonpartisan site 270toWin. Starting with Ronald Reagan in 1980, Texan voters ...
The 2000 presidential election between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush took 35 days to declare a winner — the longest wait in modern history. In contrast, current President Joe ...
Regardless, with its 34 electoral votes, Texas was the largest prize for McCain in 2008. This election marked the last time (through the 2024 presidential election) that the Democratic candidate won Brewster County. It was also the last in which Kenedy County voted for the winning candidate until 2024.
(The Center Square) – Another longtime Texas Democrat has switched parties, joining the Republican Party, this time in the border county of Webb. Webb County flipped red in November, joining ...
Republicans became increasingly dominant in national elections in white-majority Texas. The last Democratic presidential candidate to win the state was Jimmy Carter in 1976. In the 1992 election, Bill Clinton became the first Democrat to win the Oval Office while losing Texas electoral votes. This result significantly reduced the power of Texas ...