- Lead
- 43,956
- Total
- 62,332
- vs nation
- R+69.0
Texas 88th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 42,367
- Total
- 63,301
- vs nation
- R+71.4
- Lead
- 36,620
- Total
- 57,426
- vs nation
- R+65.9
- Lead
- 33,594
- Total
- 55,903
- vs nation
- R+63.9
- Lead
- 34,107
- Total
- 61,207
- vs nation
- R+63.0
- Lead
- 38,035
- Total
- 61,917
- vs nation
- R+59.0
- Lead
- 30,793
- Total
- 58,592
- vs nation
- R+53.1
- Lead
- 15,534
- Total
- 59,891
- vs nation
- R+34.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+70.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 186,0592024 5-year
- Population density
- 10 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 18,115 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $60,7352024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 46.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 47.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+82.6 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+70.5 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 72, TX · twin score 98.5
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 88th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
90.8%
27,674 votes · D+82.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 90.1%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
84.9%
52,915 votes · R+70.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 82.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
39,769votes
62.1% of the vote · D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 37,649 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
52,915votes
84.9% of the vote · R+70.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 52,473 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
+92.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+73.1 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +78.4 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+71.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+66.9 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +69.0 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+70.5, this West Texas district ranks among the most heavily one-sided state house seats in the country, reflecting a vast, sparsely populated landscape where Republican candidates face virtually no general-election competition.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 82.6 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 70.5 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 70.5 points.
A population of 186,059, a 47% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,735 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 72 and State House District 87.
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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