- Lead
- 36,515
- Total
- 197,197
- vs nation
- D+20.0
Texas 6th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 74,482
- Total
- 221,164
- vs nation
- D+29.2
- Lead
- 80,029
- Total
- 182,429
- vs nation
- D+41.8
- Lead
- 47,094
- Total
- 168,297
- vs nation
- D+24.1
- Lead
- 50,326
- Total
- 166,584
- vs nation
- D+22.9
- Lead
- 20,778
- Total
- 155,188
- vs nation
- D+15.8
- Lead
- 16,561
- Total
- 142,686
- vs nation
- D+11.1
- Lead
- 23,189
- Total
- 128,568
- vs nation
- D+9.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+18.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 959,8812024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,030 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 317 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,8162024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 10.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 71.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+90.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+2.1 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 26, TX · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 6th State Senate 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
94.9%
10,987 votes · D+90.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 91.2%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
50.2%
41,397 votes · R+2.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 49.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
146,266votes
66.1% of the vote · D+33.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 127,833 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
79,076votes
40.1% of the vote · D+18.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 71,784 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
+82.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+57.7 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +80.0 pts
Republican
George H. W. Bush1992
−8.3pts R vs U.S.
Place D+13.9 · U.S. D+5.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · −9.5 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Texas 6th State Senate District sits in the Gulf South and Southern Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 90.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 2.1 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 15.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.5 points.
A population of 959,881, a 11% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,816 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 26 and State Senate District 18.
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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Texas 6th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/48006/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.