- Lead
- 52,311
- Total
- 90,282
- vs nation
- R+56.5
Texas 62nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 44,289
- Total
- 82,046
- vs nation
- R+58.4
- Lead
- 36,796
- Total
- 66,123
- vs nation
- R+57.7
- Lead
- 29,706
- Total
- 59,345
- vs nation
- R+53.9
- Lead
- 25,212
- Total
- 63,937
- vs nation
- R+46.7
- Lead
- 24,211
- Total
- 62,682
- vs nation
- R+36.2
- Lead
- 15,740
- Total
- 55,652
- vs nation
- R+28.8
- Lead
- 2,036
- Total
- 49,402
- vs nation
- R+12.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+57.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 186,7942024 5-year
- Population density
- 79 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,352 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $72,1252024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+84.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+57.9 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 2, TX · twin score 99.1
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 62nd 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
92.3%
18,260 votes · D+84.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 90.4%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
78.6%
70,929 votes · R+57.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 76.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Jimmy Carter1976
26,059votes
62.8% of the vote · D+26.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 23,844 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
70,929votes
78.6% of the vote · R+57.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 62,658 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
John W. Davis1924
+88.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+62.9 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +74.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+58.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.0 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +57.7 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 2024 presidential margin of R+57.9, this West Texas district ranks among the most one-sided in the state legislature, reflecting a rural and small-town electorate where statewide races rarely produce competitive outcomes.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 84.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 57.9 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 57.9 points.
A population of 186,794, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,125 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 2 and State House District 59.
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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