- Lead
- 30,836
- Total
- 57,394
- vs nation
- D+55.2
Texas 146th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 39,697
- Total
- 65,245
- vs nation
- D+56.4
- Lead
- 33,812
- Total
- 55,341
- vs nation
- D+59.0
- Lead
- 27,459
- Total
- 53,471
- vs nation
- D+47.5
- Lead
- 28,015
- Total
- 52,946
- vs nation
- D+45.6
- Lead
- 22,747
- Total
- 52,838
- vs nation
- D+45.5
- Lead
- 19,524
- Total
- 47,874
- vs nation
- D+40.3
- Lead
- 19,839
- Total
- 43,504
- vs nation
- D+37.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+53.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 192,2772024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,611 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 41.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $57,0812024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 16.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 42.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 29.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+95.6 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 111, TX · twin score 98.2
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 146th 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
97.8%
575 votes · D+95.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 96.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
35.2%
9,375 votes · D+28.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 34.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
52,149votes
79.9% of the vote · D+60.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 43,661 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
14,878votes
28.2% of the vote · D+43.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 13,681 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
+95.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+70.1 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +93.7 pts
Republican
George H. W. Bush1992
−33.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+38.6 · U.S. D+5.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · −37.1 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's urban core, this district delivered a 53-point Democratic margin in 2024 — among the widest in the Texas House — reflecting a dense, diverse constituency with consistently high partisan loyalty.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.6 points in 1912. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 53.7 points.
A population of 192,277, a 16% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,081 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 111 and State House District 147.
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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