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State House District 29·Texas

Texas 29th State House District voted Democratic for a century; it now votes Republican by 20 points.

18762024·38 elections
TX
Latest
R+20
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
139,239
2024 ACS

Texas 29th State House District, Texas: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+20%. Democratic peak: D+65 in 1936.

Key facts

2024 presidential margin
R+20MIT Election Lab
Political archetype
Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
Population
139,2392024 5-year
Median household income
$97,9932024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic)
47.7%2024 5-year
Black
16.2%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino
31.6%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin
D+65 in 1932MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin
R+37 in 2004MIT Election Lab
1 counties · 0 D · 1 R
R+60
D+60
One cell per constituent county. Ordered by 2024 D-vs-R margin (bluest first). Hover for county-level numbers.
Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
R
−19.7%
22,76834,11757,669
R
−18.2%
22,14632,18355,155
R
−24.4%
15,37425,90543,126
R
−34.1%
12,25025,21837,986
R
−29.6%
12,98224,02737,346
R
−37.3%
10,28622,65633,185
R
−35.7%
8,85519,02028,477
R
−20.5%
8,17112,95123,359
R
−11.9%
7,78010,81325,433
R
−17.9%
8,34012,11021,026
R
−35.4%
6,62313,93820,644
R
−19.7%
6,4969,82716,920
D
+5.4%
7,7266,93114,856
R
−29.9%
4,0397,48911,542
D
+2.7%
4,0713,78310,713
D
+30.4%
5,6653,0178,718
R
−1.5%
3,7583,8727,724
R
−14.2%
2,5403,3946,008
D
+0.2%
2,9842,9755,965
D
+31.7%
1,7027592,976
D
+61.1%
1,9733022,737
D
+65.1%
1,3462841,632
D
+65.5%
813164991
D
+65.1%
1,0492201,273
R
−18.8%
386565952
D
+21.7%
6273961,065
R
−2.0%
421440927
D
+26.2%
368207615
D
+34.8%
26594492
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Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
German
8.4%
English
8.1%
Irish
6.8%
American
4.1%
Italian
1.8%
French
1.8%
Scottish
1.1%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. 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
72.2%
speak English only
Spanish19.5%
Asian & Pacific Islander5.2%
Other Indo-European2.0%
Other languages1.1%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Catholic & Orthodox
19.3%
Other Christian
15.4%
Baptist
13.0%
Non-Christian
3.6%
Methodist
2.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.8%
Mainline Protestant
1.6%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 42.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Texas 29th State House District sits in the Gulf South and Southern Plains. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the lingering memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in Texas 29th State House District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Texas 29th State House District, by a twenty points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at thirty-seven points in 2004. The 2024 margin was twenty points.

The political shift has tracked, in Texas 29th State House District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 48% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $97,993, and a 7% poverty rate describe the demographic context.

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Frequently asked questions

How did State House District 29, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, State House District 29, Texas voted Republican by 19.7 points (R+20), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 57,669 votes cast, 22,768 went Democratic and 34,117 went Republican.
What is State House District 29, Texas's political archetype?
Akashic classifies State House District 29, Texas as a "Old Confederacy" district based on its long-arc presidential voting pattern. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the district has voted Democratic 12 times, Republican 17 times, and other 0 times.
When did State House District 29, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which State House District 29, Texas voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in State House District 29, Texas?
State House District 29, Texas has a population of 139,239 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in State House District 29, Texas?
Median household income in State House District 29, Texas is $97,993 — above the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of State House District 29, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in State House District 29, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 17 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.