- Lead
- 26,475
- Total
- 48,410
- vs nation
- R+53.2
Texas 81st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 25,258
- Total
- 50,833
- vs nation
- R+54.1
- Lead
- 17,572
- Total
- 41,916
- vs nation
- R+44.0
- Lead
- 18,375
- Total
- 37,547
- vs nation
- R+52.8
- Lead
- 19,951
- Total
- 41,364
- vs nation
- R+55.5
- Lead
- 22,144
- Total
- 42,160
- vs nation
- R+50.1
- Lead
- 15,753
- Total
- 38,974
- vs nation
- R+40.9
- Lead
- 5,876
- Total
- 38,598
- vs nation
- R+23.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+54.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 184,6702024 5-year
- Population density
- 57 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3,244 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $71,8402024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 31.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 60.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+83.1 in 1916MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+57.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 62, NM · twin score 93.5
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 81st State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles · 33 with a vote-share denominator · 33 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
90.3%
2,950 votes · D+82.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 90.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
78.4%
26,595 votes · R+57.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 77.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
15,152votes
50.3% of the vote · D+0.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · 14,547 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
37,751votes
74.3% of the vote · R+49.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 37,276 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
+96.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+77.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +93.5 pts
Republican
John McCain2008
+55.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.2 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +54.1 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.
District 81 spans deep West Texas, where the sparse, rural electorate delivered a 54.7-point Republican presidential margin in 2024 — among the widest of any state house district in the state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.1 points in 1916 and a Republican high of 57.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 54.7 points.
A population of 184,670, a 32% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,840 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 62 and State House District 82.
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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Texas 81st State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/48081/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.