- Lead
- 6,511
- Total
- 54,528
- vs nation
- D+13.4
Texas 22nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,601
- Total
- 61,695
- vs nation
- D+16.0
- Lead
- 13,813
- Total
- 58,158
- vs nation
- D+21.7
- Lead
- 13,616
- Total
- 60,178
- vs nation
- D+18.8
- Lead
- 14,208
- Total
- 60,195
- vs nation
- D+16.3
- Lead
- 13,530
- Total
- 63,426
- vs nation
- D+23.8
- Lead
- 14,384
- Total
- 60,384
- vs nation
- D+23.3
- Lead
- 18,988
- Total
- 59,851
- vs nation
- D+23.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+11.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 186,3222024 5-year
- Population density
- 857 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 217 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $53,1452024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 27.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 40.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 26.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+82.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+2.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 139, TX · twin score 84.9
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 22nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 37 with a vote-share denominator · 33 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
91.3%
14,839 votes · D+82.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 87.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
51.1%
25,526 votes · R+2.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 46.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Michael Dukakis1988
45,351votes
69.1% of the vote · D+38.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · 44,693 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
25,526votes
51.1% of the vote · R+2.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 25,169 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
James M. Cox1920
+86.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+60.2 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +74.8 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
−13.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+11.9 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · −15.6 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
In 2024 it voted Democratic by D+11.9, against D+23.6 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 40.2%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 82.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 2.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.9 points.
A population of 186,322, a 28% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,145 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 139 and State House District 67.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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