- Lead
- 5,200
- Total
- 30,605
- vs nation
- D+18.5
Texas 140th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,406
- Total
- 35,260
- vs nation
- D+33.6
- Lead
- 15,898
- Total
- 29,504
- vs nation
- D+51.8
- Lead
- 9,671
- Total
- 27,114
- vs nation
- D+31.8
- Lead
- 9,983
- Total
- 27,021
- vs nation
- D+29.7
- Lead
- 4,481
- Total
- 24,995
- vs nation
- D+20.4
- Lead
- 3,792
- Total
- 23,098
- vs nation
- D+15.9
- Lead
- 4,595
- Total
- 21,155
- vs nation
- D+13.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+17.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 186,1882024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,879 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 48 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $50,6982024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 5.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 82.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+93.2 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 143, TX · twin score 98.3
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 140th 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
96.6%
1,845 votes · D+93.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · 94.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
47.7%
6,313 votes · D+2.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 46.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
24,124votes
68.4% of the vote · D+38.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 22,237 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
12,541votes
41.0% of the vote · D+17.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 10,718 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
+97.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+87.9 · U.S. R+9.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +86.1 pts
Republican
George H. W. Bush1992
−11.1pts R vs U.S.
Place D+16.7 · U.S. D+5.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · −13.2 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Anchored in the Houston metro, District 140 returned a D+16.9 margin in 2024, reflecting the dense, majority-Hispanic urban precincts that have defined its voting pattern for over a decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 93.2 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 21.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.0 points.
A population of 186,188, a 6% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $50,698 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 143 and Assembly District 28.
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 140th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/48140/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.