- Lead
- 5,289
- Total
- 38,584
- vs nation
- D+15.2
Texas 143rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,355
- Total
- 44,849
- vs nation
- D+25.3
- Lead
- 16,390
- Total
- 38,246
- vs nation
- D+40.8
- Lead
- 10,280
- Total
- 37,592
- vs nation
- D+23.5
- Lead
- 11,175
- Total
- 37,128
- vs nation
- D+22.8
- Lead
- 5,591
- Total
- 36,775
- vs nation
- D+17.7
- Lead
- 4,536
- Total
- 34,040
- vs nation
- D+12.8
- Lead
- 6,071
- Total
- 30,629
- vs nation
- D+11.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+13.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 200,5292024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,653 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 75.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,3972024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 10.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 75.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+91.6 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+1.0 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 140, TX · twin score 98.3
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 143rd 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
95.3%
2,588 votes · D+91.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 93.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
49.1%
9,596 votes · D+0.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 48.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
28,786votes
64.2% of the vote · D+29.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 26,710 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
16,435votes
42.6% of the vote · D+13.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 15,431 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
+83.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+58.8 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +75.3 pts
Republican
George H. W. Bush1992
−9.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+15.0 · U.S. D+5.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · −11.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Texas 143rd 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 91.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 1.0 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 16.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 13.7 points.
A population of 200,529, a 10% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,397 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 140 and State House District 119.
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.
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