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Is Texas turning blue? Here's how Texans are voting for president – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth


Is Texas turning blue? Here's how Texans are voting for president – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Harris or Trump? Curious how Texans will vote for president this year? Below are the latest election results showing how Texans are voting.

In the 42 previous presidential elections in which Texas has participated, Democrats have won the state 27 times. Before the 1980 election, Texas was reliably Democratic except for a handful of electoral victories won by Herbert Hoover (1928), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1952-1956), and Richard Nixon (1972).

Historical data from the Texas Secretary of State showed the last time the popular vote went to a Democrat was in 1976, when Jimmy Carter beat Gerald Ford by just over 100,000 votes. Since Ronald Reagan won Texas in 1980, the Lone Star State has been a Republican stronghold.

It is important to note that political parties have changed over time and have not always represented the same ideologies and positions as they do today. Republicans and Democrats look very different in modern times than they did in the 1860s or 1960s. Check out the data below to see how the Lone Star State previously voted for president.

The interactive maps below show county-by-county voting in presidential elections since 1992.

In 2008, Republican John McCain received 4,479,328 votes to Democrat Barack Obama's 3,528,633 votes, a difference of 950,695 votes. Four years later, in Obama's re-election in 2012, Republican Mitt Romney received 4,569,843 votes to Obama's 3,308,124 votes, a difference of 1,261,719 votes.

Things were much closer in 2016 than in 2012. Republican Donald Trump received 4,685,047 votes to Democrat Hillary Clinton's 3,877,868, a difference of 807,179. In 2020, during Trump's re-election campaign, he received 5,890,347 votes to Democrat Joe Biden's 5,259,126 votes, a difference of 631,221.

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