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1876–2024
DeWitt County, Texas
DeWitt County·Texas

DeWitt County was solidly one party for decades. In the last twenty years, it flipped.

One of South Texas's most Republican-leaning rural counties

18762024·38 elections
DeWitt County, Texas · Renelibrary · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+67
in 2024
Archetype
Populist
since the recent cycles
Population
20,016
2024 ACS
Most similar
Yuma County
CO · similarity 1.00
10 precincts · 7,825 votes cast
Trump · R+67
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−67.0%
1,2706,5157,825
2020R
−62.5%
1,4946,5678,118
2016R
−63.6%
1,1635,5196,844
2012R
−55.1%
1,4675,1226,638
2008R
−47.9%
1,7164,8886,626
2004R
−51.8%
1,6105,1006,732
2000R
−48.1%
1,5704,5416,183
1996R
−24.4%
2,0743,5776,164
1992R
−16.5%
2,1273,2386,730
1988R
−16.8%
2,5793,6286,255
1984R
−40.0%
1,8824,4016,292
1980R
−25.2%
2,0443,4505,580
1976R
−4.0%
2,5402,7545,327
1972R
−46.6%
1,3573,7555,147
1968R
−13.7%
1,8712,5895,244
1964D
+18.0%
3,2862,2835,573
1960R
−10.1%
2,2532,7635,029
1956R
−40.5%
1,4353,4014,849
1952R
−35.6%
1,9344,0756,018
1948D
+5.4%
1,8081,6123,647
1944D
+0.1%
1,8841,8794,187
1940D
+8.5%
2,0561,7353,791
1936D
+52.3%
1,9776162,602
1932D
+82.3%
3,2063093,521
1928D
+16.5%
1,5941,1422,741
1924D
+68.8%
4,7087125,805
1920R
−9.2%
9711,2773,309
1916R
−0.6%
1,0561,0682,147
1912D
+57.7%
1,0812191,494
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%
African American
4.9%
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
Catholic & Orthodox
16.1%
Baptist
14.8%
Mainline Protestant
7.5%
Other Christian
4.2%
Methodist
2.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
0.3%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 54.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

DeWitt County's 2024 presidential margin of R+67 places it among the most lopsided rural counties in the state, a pattern consistent with its small-town, agriculture-rooted demographic profile along the Guadalupe River corridor.

The Democratic margin in DeWitt County peaked at eighty-two points in 1932. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was sixty-seven points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. DeWitt County's median household income of $63,730 sits well below state and national norms, and 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The shift here is part of a broader realignment of working-class places across the country. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Yuma County and Phillips County.