James M. Cox carried Texas D+36.6.

James M. Cox (D) vs Warren G. Harding (R) in Texas, 1920. The state ran 62.7 points more Democratic than the nation (R+26.2 nationally).

Nominees: James M. Cox (D) · Warren G. Harding (R)

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Texas result

486,827 votes counted

Cox (D)

291,627

59.9%

Harding (R)

113,646

23.3%

All others

83,551

17.2%

Margin

D+36.6

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1920 presidential election

Texas, 1920

CoxD+36.6

How it voted

Share of the 1920 vote

James M. Cox ✓Democratic	59.9%	291,627
Warren G. HardingRepublican	23.3%	113,646
OtherAll other candidates	17.2%	83,551

D+60

R+60

246 counties, each filled by 1920 D-vs-R margin. Hover any county for its result.

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Texas's presidential margins

1912–2024, the 1920 contest in context

Texas's presidential margins

Year	Margin (D minus R)
1912	+63.2%
1916	+59.6%
1920	+36.6%
1924	+52.6%
1928	−3.9%
1932	+77.0%
1936	+74.8%
1940	+62.0%
1944	+54.8%
1948	+41.7%
1952	−6.4%
1956	−11.3%
1960	+2.0%
1964	+26.8%
1968	+1.3%
1972	−33.0%
1976	+3.2%
1980	−13.9%
1984	−27.5%
1988	−12.6%
1992	−3.5%
1996	−4.9%
2000	−21.3%
2004	−22.9%
2008	−11.8%
2012	−15.8%
2016	−9.0%
2020	−5.6%
2024	−13.7%

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County results — 1920

246 counties; every row links to the county's full page.

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County	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
Anderson County	D	+51.8%	2,355	323	3,926
Andrews County	D	+78.3%	74	9	83
Angelina County	D	+54.5%	1,661	205	2,672
Aransas County	D	+49.7%	146	49	195
Archer County	D	+43.4%	449	169	645
Armstrong County	D	+64.0%	405	87	497
Atascosa County	D	+45.1%	531	185	767
Austin County	O	−1.0%	538	568	2,890
Bandera County	D	+10.1%	311	249	611
Bastrop County	D	+27.9%	1,088	484	2,166
Baylor County	D	+57.4%	632	139	859
Bee County	D	+28.4%	545	283	923
Bell County	D	+51.2%	3,595	483	6,081
Bexar County	R	−11.5%	6,926	8,894	17,046
Blanco County	O	+2.8%	426	378	1,708
Borden County	D	+81.0%	89	4	105
Bosque County	D	+38.9%	1,556	567	2,544
Bowie County	D	+35.4%	2,396	1,032	3,851
Brazoria County	R	−2.0%	1,184	1,235	2,605
Brazos County	D	+46.2%	1,281	277	2,172
Brewster County	D	+24.5%	210	125	347
Briscoe County	D	+67.2%	262	39	332
Brooks County	D	+54.9%	127	37	164
Brown County	D	+53.8%	1,708	397	2,436
Burleson County	D	+42.3%	981	141	1,988
Burnet County	D	+43.6%	795	241	1,270
Caldwell County	D	+47.0%	1,240	269	2,067
Calhoun County	D	+47.8%	363	95	561
Callahan County	D	+49.1%	804	213	1,204
Cameron County	D	+0.6%	920	909	1,846
Camp County	D	+38.2%	661	156	1,321
Carson County	D	+34.0%	428	208	647
Cass County	D	+3.4%	1,563	1,446	3,397
Castro County	D	+14.2%	158	118	282
Chambers County	R	−6.7%	240	278	563
Cherokee County	D	+49.1%	2,233	478	3,572
Childress County	D	+73.0%	1,206	158	1,436
Clay County	D	+48.2%	1,324	446	1,821
Coke County	D	+68.1%	444	59	565
Coleman County	D	+49.2%	1,445	355	2,214
Collin County	D	+46.9%	4,045	1,338	5,778
Collingsworth County	D	+33.1%	640	307	1,007
Colorado County	O	+11.6%	765	477	2,475
Comal County	O	−32.1%	181	765	1,820
Comanche County	D	+24.6%	1,633	930	2,860
Concho County	D	+37.6%	405	151	675
Cooke County	D	+34.4%	2,170	1,003	3,388
Coryell County	D	+40.3%	1,542	444	2,722
Cottle County	D	+52.9%	472	121	664
Crockett County	D	+5.3%	89	80	171
Crosby County	D	+54.5%	572	146	782
Culberson County	D	+72.3%	40	6	47
Dallam County	D	+38.5%	478	195	736
Dallas County	D	+44.1%	14,390	4,984	21,347
Dawson County	D	+52.7%	296	75	419
Deaf Smith County	D	+38.1%	459	205	666
Delta County	D	+51.1%	1,081	315	1,498
Denton County	D	+13.7%	1,257	900	2,600
DeWitt County	R	−9.2%	971	1,277	3,309
Dickens County	D	+56.0%	433	109	579
Dimmit County	D	+35.9%	231	108	343
Donley County	D	+55.9%	766	206	1,001
Duval County	D	+84.8%	1,081	86	1,174
Eastland County	D	+49.2%	2,942	941	4,069
Ector County	D	+61.6%	100	23	125
Edwards County	R	−18.1%	201	297	529
El Paso County	D	+0.9%	4,143	4,070	8,286
Ellis County	D	+55.7%	4,081	819	5,857
Erath County	D	+56.7%	1,914	358	2,743
Falls County	D	+33.3%	1,878	585	3,883
Fannin County	D	+45.5%	3,461	1,103	5,182
Fayette County	O	−3.7%	932	1,101	4,527
Fisher County	D	+59.5%	743	152	994
Floyd County	D	+63.2%	841	167	1,066
Foard County	D	+62.0%	491	101	629
Fort Bend County	O	+2.9%	27	0	929
Freestone County	D	+39.4%	1,463	378	2,752
Frio County	D	+60.0%	421	102	532
Gaines County	D	+87.4%	134	9	143
Galveston County	D	+24.4%	2,933	1,625	5,369
Garza County	D	+77.0%	392	28	473
Gillespie County	R	−53.8%	137	1,270	2,104
Glasscock County	D	+56.4%	91	25	117
Goliad County	R	−5.6%	448	513	1,163
Gonzales County	D	+22.2%	1,299	748	2,484
Gray County	D	+34.3%	529	251	811
Grayson County	D	+39.2%	5,241	2,125	7,945
Gregg County	D	+52.1%	1,050	257	1,522
Grimes County	D	+56.1%	1,027	214	1,449
Guadalupe County	R	−39.6%	560	1,839	3,232
Hale County	D	+55.2%	1,279	352	1,679
Hall County	D	+60.5%	922	194	1,204
Hamilton County	D	+39.1%	1,075	422	1,672
Hansford County	D	+38.0%	124	54	184
Hardeman County	D	+54.0%	967	252	1,324
Hardin County	D	+57.9%	999	202	1,376
Harris County	D	+24.5%	14,808	7,735	28,837
Harrison County	D	+55.2%	2,134	377	3,181
Hartley County	D	+26.9%	144	81	234
Haskell County	D	+53.3%	1,127	254	1,637
Hays County	D	+50.3%	1,075	242	1,656
Hemphill County	D	+24.2%	417	253	678
Henderson County	D	+39.7%	1,684	538	2,889
Hidalgo County	D	+36.6%	2,409	1,108	3,559
Hill County	D	+43.3%	3,254	1,022	5,155
Hood County	D	+51.2%	697	175	1,020
Hopkins County	D	+46.3%	2,548	837	3,694
Houston County	D	+36.6%	1,475	385	2,981
Howard County	D	+65.7%	703	107	907
Hudspeth County	D	+44.4%	97	37	135
Hunt County	D	+60.8%	4,397	880	5,788
Hutchinson County	D	+11.7%	135	106	247
Irion County	D	+46.0%	148	45	224
Jack County	D	+35.5%	566	253	881
Jackson County	D	+19.6%	562	355	1,055
Jasper County	D	+66.8%	793	62	1,095
Jeff Davis County	D	+37.9%	91	41	132
Jefferson County	D	+48.6%	4,246	1,110	6,450
Jim Hogg County	D	+50.5%	70	23	93
Jim Wells County	D	+25.8%	304	169	524
Johnson County	D	+56.3%	3,041	661	4,224
Jones County	D	+66.7%	1,792	270	2,282
Karnes County	D	+10.2%	642	484	1,548
Kaufman County	D	+56.0%	3,070	573	4,462
Kendall County	R	−60.7%	142	846	1,159
Kent County	D	+59.7%	214	45	283
Kerr County	D	+12.9%	612	464	1,149
Kimble County	D	+30.3%	299	150	491
King County	D	+98.1%	157	0	160
Kinney County	R	−15.8%	98	137	247
Kleberg County	D	+42.1%	455	172	673
Knox County	D	+59.6%	773	159	1,030
La Salle County	D	+63.4%	252	53	314
Lamar County	D	+62.4%	3,765	639	5,006
Lamb County	D	+30.5%	264	136	419
Lampasas County	D	+40.9%	778	227	1,348
Lavaca County	O	+36.0%	1,249	100	3,194
Lee County	O	+17.4%	712	325	2,219
Leon County	D	+43.5%	1,124	220	2,079
Limestone County	D	+51.8%	2,165	408	3,390
Lipscomb County	R	−9.1%	350	425	821
Live Oak County	D	+14.7%	234	161	496
Llano County	D	+44.0%	665	184	1,092
Lubbock County	D	+67.2%	1,180	204	1,452
Lynn County	D	+67.7%	538	76	682
Madison County	D	+52.1%	650	63	1,126
Marion County	D	+3.4%	430	392	1,130
Martin County	D	+58.9%	136	33	175
Mason County	D	+5.2%	304	269	673
Matagorda County	D	+3.5%	992	918	2,091
Maverick County	R	−25.9%	173	296	475
McCulloch County	D	+52.0%	780	210	1,096
McLennan County	D	+42.5%	4,975	1,655	7,809
McMullen County	D	+36.8%	72	33	106
Medina County	R	−15.0%	519	772	1,689
Menard County	R	−1.4%	197	203	426
Midland County	D	+59.5%	271	68	341
Milam County	D	+66.8%	3,598	371	4,828
Mills County	D	+35.1%	669	247	1,201
Mitchell County	D	+71.2%	694	89	850
Montague County	D	+51.8%	1,714	474	2,395
Montgomery County	D	+50.5%	935	203	1,450
Moore County	D	+76.5%	101	13	115
Morris County	D	+55.6%	669	164	908
Motley County	D	+78.0%	345	40	391
Nacogdoches County	D	+57.1%	1,794	238	2,727
Navarro County	D	+48.5%	3,328	821	5,172
Newton County	D	+54.2%	420	58	668
Nolan County	D	+64.8%	923	175	1,154
Nueces County	D	+48.6%	1,246	383	1,777
Ochiltree County	D	+34.9%	280	135	415
Oldham County	D	+45.3%	139	52	192
Orange County	D	+72.1%	1,055	121	1,295
Palo Pinto County	D	+60.0%	1,645	342	2,172
Panola County	D	+49.3%	1,086	268	1,659
Parker County	D	+53.9%	1,765	488	2,369
Parmer County	D	+14.4%	189	140	341
Pecos County	R	−1.0%	386	394	814
Polk County	D	+43.2%	810	255	1,285
Potter County	D	+57.4%	1,374	358	1,771
Presidio County	D	+31.7%	238	122	366
Rains County	D	+34.6%	462	189	789
Randall County	D	+32.1%	360	183	551
Reagan County	D	+100.0%	49	0	49
Real County	D	+21.4%	177	111	309
Red River County	D	+41.4%	2,263	799	3,538
Reeves County	D	+66.5%	457	91	550
Refugio County	R	−20.6%	227	360	645
Roberts County	D	+47.3%	173	60	239
Robertson County	D	+56.0%	1,634	225	2,515
Rockwall County	D	+77.4%	873	104	994
Runnels County	D	+46.6%	1,197	332	1,855
Rusk County	D	+28.3%	1,555	745	2,863
Sabine County	D	+58.5%	637	61	985
San Augustine County	O	+34.8%	658	121	1,544
San Jacinto County	O	+45.3%	320	7	691
San Patricio County	D	+32.7%	620	308	955
San Saba County	D	+47.0%	874	180	1,476
Schleicher County	D	+42.8%	211	81	304
Scurry County	D	+64.6%	801	151	1,006
Shackelford County	D	+42.9%	342	116	527
Shelby County	D	+66.4%	1,700	150	2,336
Sherman County	D	+37.1%	170	77	251
Smith County	D	+48.3%	2,965	707	4,676
Somervell County	D	+28.3%	198	92	374
Starr County	D	+64.9%	418	89	507
Stephens County	D	+59.4%	643	141	845
Sterling County	D	+72.6%	152	17	186
Stonewall County	D	+40.6%	356	134	547
Sutton County	D	+28.2%	190	104	305
Swisher County	D	+49.0%	443	148	602
Tarrant County	D	+52.3%	12,431	3,486	17,108
Taylor County	D	+66.9%	1,932	300	2,438
Terrell County	D	+22.4%	155	95	268
Terry County	D	+65.1%	270	39	355
Throckmorton County	D	+65.7%	399	72	498
Titus County	D	+32.6%	1,094	508	1,795
Tom Green County	D	+61.1%	1,264	256	1,650
Travis County	D	+39.6%	3,541	1,204	5,905
Trinity County	D	+45.9%	643	125	1,128
Tyler County	D	+68.3%	1,066	115	1,393
Upshur County	D	+26.0%	1,222	616	2,330
Upton County	D	+29.6%	46	25	71
Uvalde County	D	+49.6%	743	237	1,021
Val Verde County	D	+17.0%	418	296	718
Van Zandt County	D	+38.4%	1,958	728	3,206
Victoria County	R	−5.1%	686	782	1,879
Walker County	D	+22.3%	788	404	1,723
Waller County	D	+40.6%	674	167	1,250
Ward County	D	+38.5%	181	79	265
Washington County	O	+3.5%	796	684	3,220
Webb County	D	+14.8%	633	468	1,117
Wharton County	R	−0.7%	836	852	2,363
Wheeler County	D	+42.3%	516	198	752
Wichita County	D	+43.0%	3,812	1,487	5,410
Wilbarger County	D	+50.8%	1,118	335	1,542
Willacy County	D	+71.0%	53	9	62
Williamson County	D	+56.6%	3,677	819	5,051
Wilson County	R	−3.8%	753	820	1,779
Winkler County	D	+78.9%	17	2	19
Wise County	D	+53.3%	2,031	579	2,725
Wood County	D	+26.7%	1,643	798	3,160
Yoakum County	D	+97.5%	79	0	81
Young County	D	+68.4%	1,214	209	1,470
Zapata County	R	−32.4%	50	98	148
Zavala County	D	+41.3%	264	101	395