- Lead
- 18,604
- Total
- 77,834
- vs nation
- D+25.4
Texas 136th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 22,379
- Total
- 86,300
- vs nation
- D+21.5
- Lead
- 8,385
- Total
- 66,240
- vs nation
- D+10.6
- Lead
- 2,261
- Total
- 55,421
- vs nation
- R+7.9
- Lead
- 2,484
- Total
- 54,607
- vs nation
- R+2.7
- Lead
- 9,584
- Total
- 46,899
- vs nation
- R+18.0
- Lead
- 10,583
- Total
- 33,758
- vs nation
- R+31.9
- Lead
- 2,064
- Total
- 23,517
- vs nation
- R+17.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+23.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 203,5872024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,468 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 58.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $97,2692024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 46.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 24.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+89.6 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+33.5 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 80, GA · twin score 91.3
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 136th 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
94.8%
2,964 votes · D+89.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 94.1%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
66.7%
8,673 votes · R+33.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · 65.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
53,432votes
61.9% of the vote · D+25.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 47,356 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
31,053votes
36.0% of the vote · D+25.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 28,752 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
John W. Davis1924
+103.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+78.4 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +86.5 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+31.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+31.3 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +18.0 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.
Anchored in Houston, this district delivered a 23.8-point Democratic margin in 2024, reflecting the dense, diverse urban electorate that has reshaped Harris County's legislative delegation over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 89.6 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 33.5 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.9 points.
A population of 203,587, a 47% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $97,269 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 80 and Assembly District 76.
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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