- Lead
- 30,160
- Total
- 83,777
- vs nation
- R+34.5
Texas 56th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 24,840
- Total
- 81,273
- vs nation
- R+35.0
- Lead
- 23,118
- Total
- 65,796
- vs nation
- R+37.2
- Lead
- 23,989
- Total
- 61,614
- vs nation
- R+42.8
- Lead
- 21,841
- Total
- 65,367
- vs nation
- R+40.7
- Lead
- 27,094
- Total
- 65,121
- vs nation
- R+39.1
- Lead
- 22,176
- Total
- 56,206
- vs nation
- R+40.0
- Lead
- 7,887
- Total
- 50,127
- vs nation
- R+24.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+36.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 199,9752024 5-year
- Population density
- 254 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 787 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $74,7932024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 59.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 23.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+78.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+44.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 72, TX · twin score 95.0
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 56th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
88.8%
8,712 votes · D+78.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 88.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
72.3%
29,366 votes · R+44.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 70.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
27,567votes
33.9% of the vote · R+30.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 26,291 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
56,451votes
67.4% of the vote · R+36.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 52,407 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+78.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+59.0 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +67.2 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+42.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.9 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +40.7 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.
With a 36.0-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, this district sits well outside competitive range, making it a bellwether for heavily Republican voter sentiment rather than a battleground for resources or turnout operations.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 78.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 44.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.0 points.
A population of 199,975, a 60% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,793 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 72 and State House District 83.
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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