- Lead
- 41,102
- Total
- 74,467
- vs nation
- R+53.7
Texas 71st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 37,867
- Total
- 74,041
- vs nation
- R+55.6
- Lead
- 33,867
- Total
- 62,155
- vs nation
- R+56.6
- Lead
- 31,883
- Total
- 58,602
- vs nation
- R+58.3
- Lead
- 29,792
- Total
- 64,026
- vs nation
- R+53.8
- Lead
- 34,795
- Total
- 64,973
- vs nation
- R+51.1
- Lead
- 27,323
- Total
- 59,276
- vs nation
- R+46.6
- Lead
- 10,796
- Total
- 55,517
- vs nation
- R+28.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+55.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 191,3172024 5-year
- Population density
- 52 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3,656 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,6672024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 61.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 24.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+84.2 in 1884MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+55.2 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 69, TX · twin score 96.8
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 71st State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1880) · 37 presidential cycles · 37 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Grover Cleveland1884
91.6%
2,355 votes · D+84.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 90.9%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
77.1%
57,414 votes · R+55.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 76.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Jimmy Carter1976
23,106votes
46.8% of the vote · R+5.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 22,706 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
57,414votes
77.1% of the vote · R+55.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 55,350 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
+94.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+69.3 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +89.7 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+58.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.4 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +56.6 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.
Texas 71st State House District sits in the Gulf South and Southern Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 84.2 points in 1884 and a Republican high of 55.2 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 55.2 points.
A population of 191,317, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,667 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 69 and State House District 86.
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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