- Lead
- 4,668
- Total
- 53,896
- vs nation
- D+10.1
Texas 148th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,460
- Total
- 59,478
- vs nation
- D+13.1
- Lead
- 8,357
- Total
- 47,027
- vs nation
- D+15.7
- Lead
- 94
- Total
- 44,275
- vs nation
- R+4.1
- Lead
- 512
- Total
- 43,646
- vs nation
- R+6.1
- Lead
- 6,616
- Total
- 41,650
- vs nation
- R+13.4
- Lead
- 6,428
- Total
- 37,882
- vs nation
- R+17.5
- Lead
- 3,182
- Total
- 33,088
- vs nation
- R+18.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 203,6392024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,333 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 47 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $67,8192024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 19.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 14.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 56.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+79.8 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+31.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 135, TX · twin score 96.2
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 148th 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
89.9%
222 votes · D+79.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 87.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
65.6%
14,977 votes · R+31.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 65.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
34,610votes
58.2% of the vote · D+17.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 28,851 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
24,183votes
44.9% of the vote · D+8.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 24,150 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
+60.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+79.8 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +58.6 pts
Republican
Bob Dole1996
+18.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+9.6 · U.S. D+8.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · +17.5 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 58.0%28,427 | 42.0%20,545 | 48,972 |
Anchored in the Houston metro, District 148 has shifted measurably toward Democrats over recent cycles, reflecting demographic changes common to urban Texas districts with growing Latino and college-educated voter populations.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 31.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.7 points.
A population of 203,639, a 19% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,819 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 135 and State House District 144.
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 148th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/48148/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.