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1876–2024
Morris County, Texas
Morris County·Texas

For eighty-eight years, Morris County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.

Deep-red timber country where margins have widened each cycle

18762024·38 elections
Morris County, Texas · Larry D. Moore · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+51
in 2024
Archetype
Realigner
since the recent cycles
Population
12,076
2024 ACS
Most similar
St. Martin Parish
LA · similarity 0.99
8 precincts · 5,446 votes cast
Trump · R+51
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−51.0%
1,3124,0925,446
2020R
−39.4%
1,6693,8725,587
2016R
−40.6%
1,4253,4464,973
2012R
−26.7%
1,8583,2325,139
2008R
−21.0%
2,0553,1585,248
2004R
−7.2%
2,4372,8185,278
2000D
+1.5%
2,4552,3814,889
1996D
+31.6%
2,9731,4494,828
1992D
+29.2%
3,0281,4005,569
1988D
+25.2%
3,5222,1045,630
1984D
+2.6%
2,9252,7785,727
1980D
+18.4%
3,1052,1335,280
1976D
+24.9%
3,0711,8434,931
1972R
−39.6%
1,1622,6993,885
1968D
+15.6%
1,7011,0644,088
1964D
+31.9%
2,3661,2183,594
1960D
+10.8%
1,9521,5693,544
1956D
+4.2%
1,5921,4633,075
1952D
+31.8%
1,7228902,613
1948D
+65.6%
1,1641431,556
1944D
+77.7%
1,2691221,476
1940D
+91.1%
1,752821,834
1936D
+91.8%
1,220521,272
1932D
+94.1%
1,253381,291
1928D
+46.2%
7802871,067
1924D
+63.5%
9642151,179
1920D
+55.6%
669164908
1916D
+49.3%
6891631,067
1912D
+29.5%
19189346
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
17.9%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
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
Other Christian
96.2%
Baptist
34.7%
Methodist
7.9%
Catholic & Orthodox
7.5%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.5%
Mainline Protestant
0.1%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 0.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Morris County sits in the Piney Woods of northeast Texas, where a shrinking rural population and a decades-long partisan realignment have pushed its presidential margins past 50 points Republican in 2024.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Morris County peaked at ninety-four points in 1932; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2004 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of seven points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Morris County's median household income of $58,645 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 20% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of St. Martin Parish and Okmulgee County.