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Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
The Texas Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Texas and one of the two major political parties in the state. The party's headquarters are in Austin, Texas. [1] President Lyndon B. Johnson was a Texas Democrat. 39 out of the 48 politicians who have served as Governor of Texas have been Texas
The 1964 election marks the last time a Democratic candidate for president won Texas with over sixty percent of the vote, won the state with a double-digit margin, and carried any counties with over ninety percent of the vote (in this case, the South Texas counties of Duval and Webb). Webb, Duval and Jim Hogg counties stood among the four most ...
While Carter failed to carry the state in 1980, [3] he remains (through the 2024 election) the last Democratic presidential candidate to have won the following counties: Cherokee, Coke, Erath, Kaufman, Leon, Somervell, [a] Van Zandt and Wise. [4] This was also the last time Texas voted more Democratic than California.
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.
With his win in Texas, the state was the only former Confederate State in 1968 to vote Democratic. As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last occasion the following counties have supported the Democratic candidate: Blanco, Nacogdoches, Rockwall and Scurry. [15]
Democratic Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who has pushed for police accountability and tougher gun laws after the Uvalde school shooting, announced Monday he will run for U.S. Senate in 2024.
Robert Charles Krueger (September 19, 1935 – April 30, 2022) was an American diplomat, politician, and U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Texas, a U.S. Ambassador, and a member of the Democratic Party. As of 2024, he is the last Democrat to serve as a United States Senator from Texas.