2024 United States presidential election in Texas

The 2024 United States presidential election in Texas was held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Texas voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Texas had 40 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state gained two seats. Texas was considered by some pollsters and experts to be potentially in play, as the state had not backed a Republican for president by double digits since it favored Mitt Romney in 2012. This increased competitiveness was largely explained by the fast-growing Texas Triangle trending leftwards in some elections, namely in the closely-contested 2018 U . Senate race and the 2020 U . presidential election, which saw the Metroplex county of Tarrant and the Greater Austin counties of Williamson and Hays flip to the Democratic candidate for the first time in decades. However, in the 2020 state elections, predominantly Hispanic South Texas shifted significantly Republican, a trend that the rest of the state followed in the 2022 midterms. In 2024, Trump went on to win Texas by a margin of over 1 million votes, the largest margin of victory in the state in 2 decades in terms of absolute vote count (although Harris' 42 % of the vote did exceed the Democratic vote percentage in the 2012 and 2004 elections within those 2 decades). Trump’s 13 % margin was significantly greater than his single-digit margins in 2016 and 2020. Trump significantly outperformed his polling averages in the state and became the first presidential candidate to win Texas by double digits since 2012, reversing the trend towards Democrats that Texas had exhibited in the two previous presidential elections. According to exit polls, 55% of Latinos in the state voted for Trump. This marked the first time a Republican candidate won a majority of both Asian and Latino voters in Texas, a feat that even former Governor George W. Bush did not achieve. Trump carried all but two Texas counties located on the Mexico–United States border (El Paso County and Presidio County), and most of these border counties had some of the largest swings in the country, some shifting upwards of 20% to the right. Trump made his largest county gain in the country in 95% Hispanic Maverick County, which swung 28% to the right. Trump also won 97 % Hispanic Starr County, the most Hispanic county in the country, the first time a Republican won the county since 1892. Harris's total of 12 counties won was the least for any Democrat in the state since George McGovern in 1972. Trump became the first presidential candidate to receive over 6 million votes in Texas, setting a record for the most votes received by a candidate in any election in the state, as well as the largest vote total ever received by a Republican presidential candidate in any state. Greater Houston and the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex also flipped back to supporting Trump after voting for Joe Biden in 2020.