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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 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. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
Due to litigation over the state's redistricting following the 2010 United States Census, it was rescheduled for April 3. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] That date also became uncertain and the primary was expected to be held, at the earliest, in late May 2012, with both May 22 [ 8 ] and May 29 [ 11 ] being proposed.
As Texas' population grows, the state has added at least two electoral college votes in each Census since 1980. Between 2010 and 2020, the population grew by four million — the largest increase ...
The election was also the first time Texas placed among the ten closest states since 1968, and the first time since 1976 that Texas voted to the left of Ohio. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Voter turnout in the state increased to its highest level since 1992 , when two Texans, George H. W. Bush and Ross Perot , were on the ballot, and the last time Texas was ...
An outlier in presidential races, the 2000 election between former Vice President Al Gore and then-Texas Gov. George Bush was not decided until Dec. 12, 2000, five weeks after Election Day.
The 2012 election marked the first time since 1988 in which no state was won by a candidate with a plurality of the state's popular vote. Furthermore, it is the only post- World War II presidential election in which no states were won by margins smaller than 30,000 votes.
The 2024 U.S. presidential election is on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5. States with the earliest, early vote periods. Early voting will take place this year again and several states start the ...