- Lead
- 183,029
- Total
- 354,437
- vs nation
- R+50.2
Texas 28th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 164,573
- Total
- 350,933
- vs nation
- R+51.4
- Lead
- 151,092
- Total
- 299,181
- vs nation
- R+52.6
- Lead
- 144,220
- Total
- 288,194
- vs nation
- R+53.9
- Lead
- 136,702
- Total
- 311,425
- vs nation
- R+51.2
- Lead
- 162,792
- Total
- 309,981
- vs nation
- R+50.1
- Lead
- 127,893
- Total
- 279,499
- vs nation
- R+46.3
- Lead
- 58,874
- Total
- 270,997
- vs nation
- R+30.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+51.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 909,5032024 5-year
- Population density
- 24 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 37,991 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $63,4412024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 54.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 33.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+94.2 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+52.5 in 2004MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 31, TX · twin score 96.4
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 28th 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
97.1%
603 votes · D+94.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 90.8%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
76.0%
235,563 votes · R+52.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 75.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
130,891votes
63.8% of the vote · D+27.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 129,426 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
267,024votes
75.3% of the vote · R+51.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 255,242 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+91.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+71.5 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +84.3 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+53.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+50.0 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +52.6 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.
Texas SD-28 stretches across a vast stretch of West and South Texas, covering rural counties where Republican presidential margins have grown steadily over the past two cycles, reflecting a broader regional shift among Latino working-class voters.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.2 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 52.5 points in 2004. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 51.6 points.
A population of 909,503, a 55% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,441 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 31 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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