Roberts County, Texas

2024 results by precinct

5 precincts · 572 votes cast

Trump · R+92

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−92.1%	20	547	572
2020	R	−93.1%	17	529	550
2016	R	−91.0%	20	524	554
2012	R	−85.6%	33	468	508
2008	R	−84.2%	41	477	518
2004	R	−81.9%	46	461	507
2000	R	−72.9%	72	472	549
1996	R	−51.2%	122	421	584
1992	R	−42.9%	126	391	617
1988	R	−52.7%	135	441	581
1984	R	−67.1%	106	539	645
1980	R	−51.7%	150	482	642
1976	R	−26.3%	202	350	562
1972	R	−72.0%	71	467	550
1968	R	−43.0%	90	311	514
1964	R	−20.0%	198	297	495
1960	R	−52.8%	104	339	445
1956	R	−40.4%	118	279	399
1952	R	−61.3%	91	379	470
1948	D	+57.7%	317	76	418
1944	D	+47.8%	289	89	418
1940	D	+75.8%	408	55	466
1936	D	+88.1%	426	27	453
1932	D	+84.5%	451	36	491
1928	R	−40.1%	104	243	347
1924	D	+39.5%	241	104	347
1920	D	+47.3%	173	60	239
1916	D	+76.9%	220	27	251
1912	D	+70.5%	183	16	237
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%

Italian

1.4%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 40.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.7%

85+

1.7%

0.8%

75–84

1.7%

6.5%

65–74

6.4%

6.7%

55–64

5.0%

5.2%

45–54

2.6%

11.4%

35–44

11.9%

1.3%

25–34

4.2%

3.0%

18–24

3.6%

12.5%

5–17

10.3%

1.2%

3.1%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$67,868

Roberts County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Roberts County$67,868

Texas$78,476

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

5.6%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

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

35.6%

Methodist

15.8%

Mainline Protestant

8.2%

Other Christian

2.4%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 38.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Roberts County recorded an R+92.1 margin in 2024, making it among the most one-sided counties in the country. With fewer than 900 residents spread across the Texas Panhandle, its small electorate consistently produces some of the most extreme margins in any statewide race.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Roberts County peaked at eighty-eight points in 1936; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 1952 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of sixty-one points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Roberts County's median household income of $67,868 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Gray County and Major County.

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For thirty-six years, Roberts County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.