- Lead
- 22,258
- Total
- 46,301
- vs nation
- D+49.5
Texas 131st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 32,135
- Total
- 53,276
- vs nation
- D+55.9
- Lead
- 31,081
- Total
- 44,246
- vs nation
- D+68.2
- Lead
- 23,588
- Total
- 40,311
- vs nation
- D+54.7
- Lead
- 23,955
- Total
- 39,944
- vs nation
- D+52.7
- Lead
- 17,258
- Total
- 37,063
- vs nation
- D+49.0
- Lead
- 14,884
- Total
- 33,812
- vs nation
- D+43.5
- Lead
- 14,931
- Total
- 30,943
- vs nation
- D+39.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+48.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 202,6672024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,982 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 50.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $53,6962024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 5.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 32.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 53.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+99.6 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 139, TX · twin score 98.0
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 131st 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
99.8%
487 votes · D+99.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · 98.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
33.0%
6,108 votes · D+33.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 32.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
42,542votes
79.9% of the vote · D+60.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 37,116 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,721votes
25.3% of the vote · D+48.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 10,407 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
William J. Bryan1908
+103.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+93.9 · U.S. R+9.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +99.6 pts
Republican
George H. W. Bush1992
−34.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+39.6 · U.S. D+5.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · −39.7 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 58.0%28,292 | 42.0%20,447 | 48,739 |
Its Democratic presidential margin was D+48.0 in 2024 and D+60.0 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with Hispanic or Latino residents at 44%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 99.6 points in 1912. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 12.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 48.1 points.
A population of 202,667, a 5% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,696 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 139 and State House District 147.
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 131st State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/48131/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.