- Lead
- 82,386
- Total
- 404,364
- vs nation
- R+18.9
Texas 2nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 59,518
- Total
- 386,977
- vs nation
- R+19.8
- Lead
- 72,743
- Total
- 307,135
- vs nation
- R+25.8
- Lead
- 83,150
- Total
- 278,600
- vs nation
- R+33.7
- Lead
- 71,665
- Total
- 282,087
- vs nation
- R+32.7
- Lead
- 94,409
- Total
- 259,957
- vs nation
- R+33.9
- Lead
- 77,990
- Total
- 217,403
- vs nation
- R+36.4
- Lead
- 38,248
- Total
- 184,824
- vs nation
- R+29.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+20.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 957,9942024 5-year
- Population density
- 274 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3,490 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $88,4842024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 47.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 28.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+78.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 9, TX · twin score 97.0
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 2nd 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. Roosevelt1936
89.3%
22,659 votes · D+78.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 87.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
76.6%
91,982 votes · R+53.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 73.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
161,254votes
41.7% of the vote · R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 158,077 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
240,463votes
59.5% of the vote · R+20.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 220,772 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
+94.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+69.1 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +87.0 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+36.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+35.9 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +33.9 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.
Covering a swath of West Texas and the Panhandle, this district recorded a 20.4-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, reflecting a rural, resource-economy electorate that has shifted decisively rightward over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 78.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 53.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.4 points.
A population of 957,994, a 48% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,484 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 9 and State Senate District 22.
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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