- Lead
- 34,009
- Total
- 268,432
- vs nation
- D+14.1
Texas 29th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 90,943
- Total
- 285,554
- vs nation
- D+27.4
- Lead
- 91,996
- Total
- 232,249
- vs nation
- D+37.5
- Lead
- 55,809
- Total
- 188,007
- vs nation
- D+25.8
- Lead
- 60,160
- Total
- 200,911
- vs nation
- D+22.7
- Lead
- 19,255
- Total
- 185,515
- vs nation
- D+12.8
- Lead
- 25,268
- Total
- 160,523
- vs nation
- D+15.2
- Lead
- 43,450
- Total
- 150,139
- vs nation
- D+20.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+12.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 917,9882024 5-year
- Population density
- 36 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 25,632 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $59,6922024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 12.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 81.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+74.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+22.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 21, TX · twin score 96.2
presidential history
Party record book
Texas 29th 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
87.0%
16,926 votes · D+74.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 81.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
60.7%
58,416 votes · R+22.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 57.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
185,727votes
65.0% of the vote · D+31.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 155,441 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
115,474votes
43.0% of the vote · D+12.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 94,784 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+56.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+36.9 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +51.9 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
+5.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+15.9 · U.S. R+10.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · +3.0 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.
Anchored in Harris County, SD-29 is one of Texas's most reliably Democratic state senate districts, with a heavily Latino and working-class electorate that has consistently backed statewide Democratic candidates by wide margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 74.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 22.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 19.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.7 points.
A population of 917,988, a 12% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,692 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 21 and State Senate District 19.
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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