- Lead
- 1,228
- Total
- 41,837
- vs nation
- R+1.5
Texas 144th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,882
- Total
- 46,623
- vs nation
- D+8.2
- Lead
- 8,435
- Total
- 38,979
- vs nation
- D+19.5
- Lead
- 903
- Total
- 37,968
- vs nation
- R+1.5
- Lead
- 1,633
- Total
- 37,460
- vs nation
- R+2.9
- Lead
- 4,880
- Total
- 36,915
- vs nation
- R+10.8
- Lead
- 4,844
- Total
- 33,778
- vs nation
- R+14.9
- Lead
- 2,096
- Total
- 29,931
- vs nation
- R+15.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+2.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 203,9602024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,623 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 56.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $60,2382024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 13.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 75.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+83.2 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+28.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 148, TX · twin score 95.5
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 144th 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
91.6%
2,032 votes · D+83.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · 90.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
63.5%
12,893 votes · R+28.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 62.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
25,956votes
55.7% of the vote · D+12.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 22,902 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
21,256votes
50.8% of the vote · R+2.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 20,751 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
+63.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+38.4 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +61.6 pts
Republican
Bob Dole1996
+15.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+7.0 · U.S. D+8.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · +14.9 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
District 144 sits in the Houston metro's eastern suburbs, where rapid population growth and shifting demographics have compressed a once-comfortable Republican presidential margin to single digits.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 28.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 15.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.9 points.
A population of 203,960, a 14% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,238 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 148 and State House District 23.
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 144th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/48144/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.