- Lead
- 9,278
- Total
- 87,201
- vs nation
- R+9.2
Texas 96th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,557
- Total
- 88,552
- vs nation
- R+14.1
- Lead
- 15,921
- Total
- 72,487
- vs nation
- R+24.1
- Lead
- 20,024
- Total
- 64,798
- vs nation
- R+34.8
- Lead
- 18,140
- Total
- 66,172
- vs nation
- R+34.7
- Lead
- 24,554
- Total
- 57,515
- vs nation
- R+40.2
- Lead
- 19,910
- Total
- 48,305
- vs nation
- R+41.7
- Lead
- 10,888
- Total
- 40,427
- vs nation
- R+35.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+10.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 188,5932024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,917 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 98.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $105,6122024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 52.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 19.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+78.6 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+55.5 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 94, TX · twin score 97.1
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 96th 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
89.3%
150 votes · D+78.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 81.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
77.8%
2,448 votes · R+55.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 76.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
39,420votes
44.5% of the vote · R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 38,300 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
47,977votes
54.2% of the vote · R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 47,578 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
+62.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+42.8 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +51.4 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+41.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+41.2 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +40.2 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.
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+10.6 in 2024, compared with R+27.3 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 48.2%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 78.6 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 55.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.6 points.
A population of 188,593, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $105,612 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 94 and State House District 97.
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 96th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/48096/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.