- Lead
- 218,170
- Total
- 402,892
- vs nation
- R+52.7
Texas 1st State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 194,131
- Total
- 396,258
- vs nation
- R+53.4
- Lead
- 173,403
- Total
- 343,591
- vs nation
- R+52.6
- Lead
- 152,050
- Total
- 330,678
- vs nation
- R+49.8
- Lead
- 133,937
- Total
- 335,264
- vs nation
- R+47.2
- Lead
- 122,265
- Total
- 324,153
- vs nation
- R+35.3
- Lead
- 90,275
- Total
- 283,725
- vs nation
- R+32.3
- Lead
- 18,571
- Total
- 263,170
- vs nation
- R+15.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+54.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 923,4482024 5-year
- Population density
- 75 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 12,254 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,8052024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 62.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 15.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 15.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+86.3 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.2 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 3, TX · twin score 95.5
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 1st State Senate District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
93.0%
67,693 votes · D+86.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 92.4%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
76.7%
309,047 votes · R+54.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 73.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Michael Dukakis1988
113,326votes
42.4% of the vote · R+14.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · 111,661 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
309,047votes
76.7% of the vote · R+54.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 292,934 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
+94.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+69.5 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +68.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+53.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+49.0 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +52.7 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.
Anchoring the Texas Panhandle and surrounding high plains, this district recorded an R+54.2 presidential margin in 2024, reflecting the region's deep roots in agriculture, evangelical faith communities, and low-density rural demography.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 86.3 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 54.2 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 54.2 points.
A population of 923,448, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,805 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 3 and State Senate District 9.
The state-senate 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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