Presidential elections in Texas
|
No. of elections |
41 |
---|
Voted Democrat |
27 |
---|
Voted Republican |
14 |
---|
Voted other |
0 |
---|
Voted for winning candidate |
25 |
---|
Voted for losing candidate |
16 |
---|
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864 during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the election of 1868, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
In its first century Texas was a Democratic bastion, only voting for another party once – in 1928 when anti-Catholic sentiment against Al Smith drove voters to Republican Herbert Hoover. A gradual trend towards increasing social liberalism in the Democratic Party, however, has turned the state (apart from Hispanic South Texas, the Trans-Pecos and several large cities) into a Republican stronghold. Since 1980 Texas has voted Republican in every election.
Winners of the state are in bold.
Elections from 1864 to present
Year |
Winner (nationally) |
Votes |
Percent |
Loser (nationally) |
Votes |
Percent |
Other national candidates[lower-alpha 1] |
Votes |
Percent |
Electoral Votes |
Notes |
2016 | Donald Trump | 4,685,047 | 52.10 | Hillary Clinton | 3,877,868 | 43.12 | - | | | 38 | Two faithless electors, one voting for John Kasich, the other for Ron Paul. |
2012 | Barack Obama | 3,308,124 | 41.38 | Mitt Romney | 4,569,843 | 57.17 | - | | | 38 | |
2008 | Barack Obama | 3,528,633 | 43.68 | John McCain | 4,479,328 | 55.45 | - | | | 34 | |
2004 | George W. Bush | 4,526,917 | 61.09 | John Kerry | 2,832,704 | 38.22 | - | | | 34 | |
2000 | George W. Bush | 3,799,639 | 59.30 | Al Gore | 2,433,746 | 37.98 | - | | | 32 | |
1996 | Bill Clinton | 2,459,683 | 43.83 | Bob Dole | 2,736,167 | 48.76 | Ross Perot | 378,537 | 6.75 | 32 | |
1992 | Bill Clinton | 2,281,815 | 37.08 | George H. W. Bush | 2,496,071 | 40.56 | Ross Perot | 1,354,781 | 22.01 | 32 | |
1988 | George H. W. Bush | 3,036,829 | 55.95 | Michael Dukakis | 2,352,748 | 43.35 | - | | | 29 | |
1984 | Ronald Reagan | 3,433,428 | 63.61 | Walter Mondale | 1,949,276 | 36.11 | - | | | 29 | |
1980 | Ronald Reagan | 2,510,705 | 55.28 | Jimmy Carter | 1,881,147 | 41.42 | John B. Anderson | 111,613 | 2.46 | 26 | |
1976 | Jimmy Carter | 2,082,319 | 51.14 | Gerald Ford | 1,953,300 | 47.97 | - | | | 26 | |
1972 | Richard Nixon | 2,298,896 | 66.20 | George McGovern | 1,154,291 | 33.24 | - | | | 26 | |
1968 | Richard Nixon | 1,227,844 | 39.87 | Hubert Humphrey | 1,266,804 | 41.14 | George Wallace | 584,269 | 18.97 | 25 | |
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1,663,185 | 63.32 | Barry Goldwater | 958,566 | 36.49 | - | | | 25 | |
1960 | John F. Kennedy | 1,167,567 | 50.52 | Richard Nixon | 1,121,310 | 48.52 | - | | | 24 | |
1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1,080,619 | 55.26 | Adlai Stevenson II | 859,958 | 43.98 | T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors[lower-alpha 2] | 14,591 | 0.75 | 24 | |
1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1,102,878 | 53.13 | Adlai Stevenson II | 969,228 | 46.69 | - | | | 24 | |
1948 | Harry S. Truman | 824,235 | 65.96 | Thomas E. Dewey | 303,467 | 24.29 | Strom Thurmond | 113,776 | 9.11 | 23 | |
1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 821,605 | 71.42 | Thomas E. Dewey | 191,425 | 16.64 | - | | | 23 | |
1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 909,974 | 80.92 | Wendell Willkie | 212,692 | 18.91 | - | | | 23 | |
1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 734,485 | 87.08 | Alf Landon | 103,874 | 12.31 | - | | | 23 | |
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 760,348 | 88.06 | Herbert Hoover | 97,959 | 11.35 | - | | | 23 | |
1928 | Herbert Hoover | 367,036 | 51.77 | Al Smith | 341,032 | 48.10 | - | | | 20 | |
1924 | Calvin Coolidge | 130,023 | 19.78 | John W. Davis | 484,605 | 73.70 | Robert M. La Follette Sr. | 42,881 | 6.52 | 20 | |
1920 | Warren G. Harding | 114,538 | 23.54 | James M. Cox | 288,767 | 59.34 | - | | | 20 | |
1916 | Woodrow Wilson | 286,514 | 76.92 | Charles E. Hughes | 64,999 | 17.45 | - | | | 20 | |
1912 | Woodrow Wilson | 221,589 | 72.62 | Theodore Roosevelt | 28,853 | 9.46 | William H. Taft | 26,755 | 8.77 | 20 | |
1908 | William H. Taft | 65,666 | 22.35 | William Jennings Bryan | 217,302 | 73.97 | - | | | 18 | |
1904 | Theodore Roosevelt | 51,242 | 21.9 | Alton B. Parker | 167,200 | 71.45 | - | | | 18 | |
1900 | William McKinley | 130,641 | 30.83 | William Jennings Bryan | 267,432 | 63.12 | - | | | 15 | |
1896 | William McKinley | 167,520 | 30.75 | William Jennings Bryan | 370,434 | 68.00 | - | | | 15 | |
1892 | Grover Cleveland | 239,148 | 56.65 | Benjamin Harrison | 81,144 | 19.22 | James B. Weaver | 99,688 | 23.61 | 15 | |
1888 | Benjamin Harrison | 88,422 | 24.73 | Grover Cleveland | 234,883 | 65.7 | - | | | 13 | |
1884 | Grover Cleveland | 225,309 | 69.26 | James G. Blaine | 93,141 | 28.63 | - | | | 13 | |
1880 | James A. Garfield | 57,893 | 23.95 | Winfield S. Hancock | 156,428 | 64.71 | James B. Weaver | 27,405 | 11.34 | 8 | |
1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes | 44,800 | 29.96 | Samuel J. Tilden | 104,755 | 70.04 | - | | | 8 | |
1872 | Ulysses S. Grant | 47,468 | 40.71 | Horace Greeley | 66,546 | 57.07 | - | | | 8 | |
1868 | Ulysses S. Grant | No vote due to status of Reconstruction. | | Horatio Seymour | | | - | | | | |
1864 | Abraham Lincoln | No vote due to secession. | | George B. McClellan | | | - | | | | |
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War.
Notes
- 1 2 For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
- ↑ Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina