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1876–2024
Comanche County, Texas
Comanche County·Texas

For sixty-four years, Comanche County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.

One of Texas's most lopsided rural counties in recent cycles

18762024·38 elections
Comanche County, Texas · Larry D. Moore · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+74
in 2024
Archetype
Realigner
since the recent cycles
Population
13,950
2024 ACS
Most similar
Briscoe County
TX · similarity 1.00
14 precincts · 6,544 votes cast
Trump · R+74
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−74.0%
8345,6796,544
2020R
−71.0%
8535,1776,086
2016R
−67.7%
7894,3335,237
2012R
−62.3%
8903,9444,906
2008R
−47.5%
1,3343,8135,217
2004R
−45.2%
1,4313,8135,268
2000R
−33.8%
1,6363,3345,022
1996D
+0.3%
2,1382,1234,779
1992D
+12.0%
2,2961,6665,248
1988D
+10.5%
2,6222,1204,761
1984R
−8.7%
2,2482,6784,948
1980D
+12.5%
2,5501,9774,588
1976D
+44.7%
3,4141,2974,731
1972R
−37.5%
1,1762,6083,818
1968D
+13.2%
1,9801,4364,125
1964D
+49.5%
2,8519623,819
1960D
+3.9%
1,9791,8283,830
1956D
+1.6%
1,9621,9003,878
1952R
−5.0%
2,1812,4114,596
1948D
+71.5%
2,9154083,505
1944D
+68.3%
2,9413563,787
1940D
+68.2%
3,2266103,837
1936D
+74.3%
2,5873553,005
1932D
+88.1%
3,1341923,339
1928R
−6.2%
1,3111,4832,794
1924R
−8.5%
376456946
1920D
+24.6%
1,6339302,860
1916D
+68.8%
1,4941481,956
1912D
+64.4%
1,659682,472
1908
No data
1904
No data
1900
No data
1896
No data
1892
No data
1888
No data
1884
No data
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
35.7%
Catholic & Orthodox
8.6%
Methodist
7.3%
Other Christian
6.7%
Pentecostal & Holiness
0.8%
Mainline Protestant
0.5%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 40.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Comanche County, anchored by the small city of Comanche in the Cross Timbers region, recorded a 74-point Republican presidential margin in 2024 — a figure consistent with the dramatic rural realignment that has reshaped small-town Texas over the past decade.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Comanche County peaked at eighty-eight points in 1932; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2000 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of thirty-four points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Comanche County's median household income of $59,635 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Briscoe County and Menard County.