- Lead
- 17,215
- Total
- 62,452
- vs nation
- D+29.0
Texas 116th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 25,311
- Total
- 68,281
- vs nation
- D+32.6
- Lead
- 17,713
- Total
- 55,300
- vs nation
- D+29.9
- Lead
- 10,654
- Total
- 50,495
- vs nation
- D+17.2
- Lead
- 11,387
- Total
- 51,795
- vs nation
- D+14.7
- Lead
- 2,081
- Total
- 49,743
- vs nation
- D+6.6
- Lead
- 3,000
- Total
- 43,190
- vs nation
- D+6.4
- Lead
- 7,274
- Total
- 38,732
- vs nation
- D+10.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+27.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 199,7212024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,006 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 39.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,3342024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 21.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 61.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+76.2 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+5.1 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 125, TX · twin score 96.9
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 116th 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
88.1%
4,637 votes · D+76.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · 82.9%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
52.6%
18,438 votes · R+5.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 52.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
46,297votes
67.8% of the vote · D+37.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 39,372 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
23,636votes
47.5% of the vote · D+4.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 22,157 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
+69.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+49.3 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · +64.1 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
−6.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+6.9 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · −6.6 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.
Anchored in urban Dallas County, this district delivered a 27.6-point Democratic margin in 2024, reflecting the dense, diverse electorate that has made it one of the most reliably left-leaning state house constituencies in Texas.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 76.2 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 5.1 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.6 points.
A population of 199,721, a 22% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,334 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 125 and State House District 103.
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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