- Lead
- 184,677
- Total
- 326,896
- vs nation
- D+58.0
Texas 37th Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 218,703
- Total
- 351,054
- vs nation
- D+57.8
- Lead
- 157,404
- Total
- 277,617
- vs nation
- D+54.6
- Lead
- 97,038
- Total
- 231,237
- vs nation
- D+38.1
- Lead
- 113,082
- Total
- 241,973
- vs nation
- D+39.5
- Lead
- 66,243
- Total
- 216,861
- vs nation
- D+33.0
- Lead
- 18,821
- Total
- 179,579
- vs nation
- D+10.0
- Lead
- 42,295
- Total
- 151,400
- vs nation
- D+19.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+56.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 766,9872024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,821 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 272 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $88,3782024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 43.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 37.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+87.0 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 1, CO · twin score 94.5
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 37th 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. Roosevelt1936
92.8%
8,821 votes · D+87.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 91.2%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
48.0%
62,007 votes · D+3.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 47.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
280,910votes
80.0% of the vote · D+62.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 252,360 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
73,184votes
33.7% of the vote · D+30.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · 69,898 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
+94.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+69.3 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +82.1 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
−10.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+10.5 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · −19.4 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.
| Year | District | Won | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37 | D | 74.2%252,980 | 23.6%80,366 | 340,857 |
| 2022 | 37 | D | 76.8%219,358 | 21.0%59,923 | 285,789 |
TX-37 anchors Austin's urban core, where a young, highly educated, and racially diverse electorate produced a 56.5-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024 — among the widest in the state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 87.0 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 56.5 points.
A population of 766,987, a 44% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,378 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 1 and Congressional District 7.
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
Open the source-auditable district brief for electoral baseline, electorate, current-cycle coverage, geography, official dates, and methodology. Open campaign intelligence report → · Browse all comparisons →
Texas 37th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/4837/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.