- Lead
- 39,314
- Total
- 64,404
- vs nation
- R+59.6
Texas 82nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 37,007
- Total
- 64,805
- vs nation
- R+61.6
- Lead
- 29,938
- Total
- 54,537
- vs nation
- R+57.0
- Lead
- 30,095
- Total
- 49,963
- vs nation
- R+64.1
- Lead
- 29,293
- Total
- 52,085
- vs nation
- R+63.5
- Lead
- 32,111
- Total
- 51,186
- vs nation
- R+60.3
- Lead
- 26,959
- Total
- 46,528
- vs nation
- R+58.5
- Lead
- 16,906
- Total
- 43,269
- vs nation
- R+47.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+61.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 187,6762024 5-year
- Population density
- 69 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,716 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $90,1632024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 44.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 43.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+82.4 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+62.7 in 2004MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 128, TX · twin score 96.8
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 82nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1888) · 35 presidential cycles · 35 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
90.8%
3,598 votes · D+82.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 89.6%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
81.1%
41,518 votes · R+62.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 80.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
13,425votes
20.7% of the vote · R+57.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 12,709 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
51,579votes
80.1% of the vote · R+61.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 50,432 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
+93.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+74.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +93.9 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+64.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+60.2 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +63.5 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 82 recorded a 61.0-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most decisively one-sided state house districts in Texas. Its West Texas geography anchors a low-density, rural electorate with deeply consistent voting patterns.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 82.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 62.7 points in 2004. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 61.0 points.
A population of 187,676, a 45% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $90,163 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 128 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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