- Lead
- 86,530
- Total
- 369,210
- vs nation
- R+22.0
Texas 3rd Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 59,206
- Total
- 338,889
- vs nation
- R+21.9
- Lead
- 73,006
- Total
- 256,070
- vs nation
- R+30.6
- Lead
- 80,829
- Total
- 210,945
- vs nation
- R+42.2
- Lead
- 66,297
- Total
- 209,421
- vs nation
- R+38.9
- Lead
- 74,151
- Total
- 170,288
- vs nation
- R+41.1
- Lead
- 56,386
- Total
- 131,493
- vs nation
- R+43.4
- Lead
- 23,411
- Total
- 107,477
- vs nation
- R+30.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+23.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 766,9792024 5-year
- Population density
- 227 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3,379 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $113,2032024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 54.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 19.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+89.1 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.0 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 26, TX · twin score 96.9
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 3rd Congressional District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
94.4%
19,483 votes · D+89.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 93.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
72.3%
27,718 votes · R+45.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 71.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
136,925votes
37.1% of the vote · R+23.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 136,654 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
223,455votes
60.5% of the vote · R+23.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 195,860 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
John W. Davis1924
+96.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+71.3 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +83.2 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+43.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+42.9 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +42.2 pts
Current officeholders
Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.
Texas 3rd Congressional District sits in the Gulf South and Southern Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 89.1 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 45.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.4 points.
A population of 766,979, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $113,203 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 26 and Congressional District 4.
The congressional districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Texas 3rd Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/4803/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.