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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.
In the 1968 presidential election, Democrat Hubert Humphrey barely managed to win Texas. In 1976, Jimmy Carter became the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry Texas, and the tide was clearly turning when Democrats lost the gubernatorial election of 1978. Bill Clements was the first Republican governor since Reconstruction. By the ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of major Democratic Party candidates for president. The Democratic Party has existed since the dissolution of the Democratic-Republican Party in the 1820s, and the Democrats have nominated a candidate for president in every presidential election since the party's first convention in 1832.
People attend a campaign rally for Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, at the James R Hallford Stadium on October 24, 2024 in Clarkston, Georgia.
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.
Texas is now a toss-up state in the presidential election, according to new data from RealClear Politics' poll aggregator. The RCP average shows Trump leading Clinton 43.6 percent to 38.8 percent ...