- Lead
- 32,061
- Total
- 94,666
- vs nation
- R+32.4
Texas 130th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 29,196
- Total
- 89,945
- vs nation
- R+36.9
- Lead
- 27,759
- Total
- 68,145
- vs nation
- R+42.8
- Lead
- 27,586
- Total
- 54,581
- vs nation
- R+54.4
- Lead
- 26,503
- Total
- 53,631
- vs nation
- R+56.7
- Lead
- 24,477
- Total
- 40,458
- vs nation
- R+58.0
- Lead
- 22,273
- Total
- 36,946
- vs nation
- R+60.8
- Lead
- 16,877
- Total
- 31,271
- vs nation
- R+62.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+33.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 192,6032024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,219 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 158 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $119,6502024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 54.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 24.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+30.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+70.9 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 15, TX · twin score 96.5
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 130th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 37 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
65.4%
921 votes · D+30.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · 58.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
85.4%
20,196 votes · R+70.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 85.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
30,591votes
32.3% of the vote · R+33.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 29,701 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
62,652votes
66.2% of the vote · R+33.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 58,897 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1944
+10.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+17.7 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +6.5 pts
Republican
Bob Dole1996
+62.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.0 · U.S. D+8.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +61.8 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+33.9, District 130 in the Houston exurbs ranks among the most one-sided state house seats in Texas, where Republican candidates routinely run unopposed or face only nominal general-election competition.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 70.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 33.9 points.
A population of 192,603, a 55% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $119,650 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 15 and State House District 126.
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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