- Lead
- 8,597
- Total
- 58,512
- vs nation
- R+13.2
Texas 74th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,878
- Total
- 60,751
- vs nation
- D+0.3
- Lead
- 13,303
- Total
- 51,993
- vs nation
- D+23.5
- Lead
- 9,474
- Total
- 42,190
- vs nation
- D+18.6
- Lead
- 10,480
- Total
- 43,953
- vs nation
- D+16.6
- Lead
- 1,485
- Total
- 39,177
- vs nation
- R+1.3
- Lead
- 1,604
- Total
- 37,275
- vs nation
- D+3.8
- Lead
- 8,753
- Total
- 33,919
- vs nation
- D+17.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+14.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 203,2182024 5-year
- Population density
- 6.4 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 31,699 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $61,1262024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 13.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 81.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+68.7 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+23.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 80, TX · twin score 98.2
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 74th 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. Roosevelt1932
84.2%
7,250 votes · D+68.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 82.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
61.5%
13,649 votes · R+23.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 56.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
31,419votes
51.7% of the vote · D+4.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 31,412 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
33,273votes
56.9% of the vote · R+14.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 28,541 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
+51.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+32.0 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +50.9 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
+13.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+14.7 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +1.3 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 Republican by R+14.6, against D+23.7 in 2008, having changed party at least once across the five cycles. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with Hispanic or Latino residents at 82.6%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 68.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 23.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 19.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.7 points.
A population of 203,218, a 14% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,126 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 80 and State House District 39.
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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