- Lead
- 5,456
- Total
- 30,426
- vs nation
- D+19.4
Texas 137th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,054
- Total
- 37,654
- vs nation
- D+27.6
- Lead
- 10,759
- Total
- 31,692
- vs nation
- D+31.9
- Lead
- 5,566
- Total
- 31,117
- vs nation
- D+14.0
- Lead
- 5,964
- Total
- 30,758
- vs nation
- D+12.1
- Lead
- 1,554
- Total
- 30,804
- vs nation
- D+7.5
- Lead
- 977
- Total
- 28,033
- vs nation
- D+3.0
- Lead
- 2,596
- Total
- 24,666
- vs nation
- D+2.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+17.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 196,0972024 5-year
- Population density
- 9,519 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 20.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $48,5832024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 14.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 53.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+89.5 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+10.9 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 90, TX · twin score 96.2
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 137th 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
94.7%
234 votes · D+89.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 91.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
55.4%
9,085 votes · R+10.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 54.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
24,638votes
65.4% of the vote · D+32.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 20,523 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
14,527votes
47.2% of the vote · D+5.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 13,305 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
+78.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+53.1 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +72.2 pts
Republican
Bob Dole1996
−2.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+10.5 · U.S. D+8.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1992 · −2.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Texas 137th State House District sits in the Gulf South and Southern Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 89.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 10.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 14.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.9 points.
A population of 196,097, a 15% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $48,583 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 90 and State House District 104.
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 137th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/48137/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.