# United States presidential elections in Texas

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 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
In its first century, Texas was a Democratic bastion in the mold of the "Solid South", only voting for another party once–– in 1928, when anti-Catholic sentiment against Democrat nominee Al Smith drove Texas' largely-Protestant electorate to back Republican Herbert Hoover. A gradual trend towards increasing social liberalism in the Democratic Party, however, has turned the state into generally a Republican stronghold. Since 1980, Texas has voted for the Republican nominee in every presidential election.
Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.

## Elections from 1864 to present

| Year | Winner (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Other national candidates | Votes | Percent | Electoral votes | Margin of victory |
| 2024 | Donald Trump | 6,393,597 | 56.14 | Kamala Harris | 4,835,250 | 42.46 | — | | | 40 | 1,558,347 |
| 2020 | Joe Biden | 5,259,126 | 46.48 | Donald Trump | 5,890,347 | 52.06 | — | | | 38 | 631,221 |
| 2016 | Donald Trump | 4,685,047 | 52.23 | Hillary Clinton | 3,877,868 | 43.24 | — | | | 38 | 807,179 |
| 2012 | Barack Obama | 3,308,124 | 41.38 | Mitt Romney | 4,569,843 | 57.17 | — | | | 38 | 1,261,719 |
| 2008 | Barack Obama | 3,528,633 | 43.68 | John McCain | 4,479,328 | 55.45 | — | | | 34 | 950,695 |
| 2004 | George W. Bush | 4,526,917 | 61.09 | John Kerry | 2,832,704 | 38.22 | — | | | 34 | 1,694,213 |
| 2000 | George W. Bush | 3,799,639 | 59.30 | Al Gore | 2,433,746 | 37.98 | — | | | 32 | 1,365,893 |
| 1996 | Bill Clinton | 2,459,683 | 43.83 | Bob Dole | 2,736,167 | 48.76 | Ross Perot | 378,537 | 6.75 | 32 | 276,484 |
| 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 | 214,256 |
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush | 3,036,829 | 55.95 | Michael Dukakis | 2,352,748 | 43.35 | — | | | 29 | 684,081 |
| 1984 | Ronald Reagan | 3,433,428 | 63.61 | Walter Mondale | 1,949,276 | 36.11 | — | | | 29 | 1,484,152 |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan | 2,510,705 | 55.28 | Jimmy Carter | 1,881,147 | 41.42 | John B. Anderson | 111,613 | 2.46 | 26 | 629,558 |
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter | 2,082,319 | 51.14 | Gerald Ford | 1,953,300 | 47.97 | — | | | 26 | 129,019 |
| 1972 | Richard Nixon | 2,298,896 | 66.20 | George McGovern | 1,154,291 | 33.24 | — | | | 26 | 1,144,605 |
| 1968 | Richard Nixon | 1,227,844 | 39.87 | Hubert Humphrey | 1,266,804 | 41.14 | George Wallace | 584,269 | 18.97 | 25 | 38,960 |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1,663,185 | 63.32 | Barry Goldwater | 958,566 | 36.49 | — | | | 25 | 704,619 |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy | 1,167,567 | 50.52 | Richard Nixon | 1,121,310 | 48.52 | — | | | 24 | 46,257 |
| 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1,080,619 | 55.26 | Adlai Stevenson II | 859,958 | 43.98 | T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors | 14,591 | 0.75 | 24 | 220,661 |
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1,102,878 | 53.13 | Adlai Stevenson II | 969,228 | 46.69 | — | | | 24 | 133,650 |
| 1948 | Harry S. Truman | 824,235 | 65.96 | Thomas E. Dewey | 303,467 | 24.29 | Strom Thurmond | 113,776 | 9.11 | 23 | 520,768 |
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 821,605 | 71.42 | Thomas E. Dewey | 191,425 | 16.64 | — | | | 23 | 630,180 |
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 909,974 | 80.92 | Wendell Willkie | 212,692 | 18.91 | — | | | 23 | 697,282 |
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 734,485 | 87.08 | Alf Landon | 103,874 | 12.31 | — | | | 23 | 630,611 |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 760,348 | 88.06 | Herbert Hoover | 97,959 | 11.35 | — | | | 23 | 662,389 |
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover | 367,036 | 51.77 | Al Smith | 341,032 | 48.10 | — | | | 20 | 26,004 |
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge | 130,023 | 19.78 | John W. Davis | 484,605 | 73.70 | Robert M. La Follette | 42,881 | 6.52 | 20 | 354,582 |
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding | 114,538 | 23.54 | James M. Cox | 288,767 | 59.34 | Parley P. Christensen | — | — | 20 | 174,229 |
| 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | 286,514 | 76.92 | Charles E. Hughes | 64,999 | 17.45 | — | | | 20 | 221,515 |
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson | 221,589 | 72.62 | Theodore Roosevelt | 28,853 | 9.46 | William H. Taft | 26,755 | 8.77 | 20 | 192,736 |
| 1908 | William H. Taft | 65,666 | 22.35 | William Jennings Bryan | 217,302 | 73.97 | — | | | 18 | 151,636 |
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt | 51,242 | 21.9 | Alton B. Parker | 167,200 | 71.45 | — | | | 18 | 115,958 |
| 1900 | William McKinley | 130,641 | 30.83 | William Jennings Bryan | 267,432 | 63.12 | — | | | 15 | 136,791 |
| 1896 | William McKinley | 167,520 | 30.75 | William Jennings Bryan | 370,434 | 68.00 | — | | | 15 | 202,914 |
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland | 239,148 | 56.65 | Benjamin Harrison | 81,144 | 19.22 | James B. Weaver | 99,688 | 23.61 | 15 | 158,004 |
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison | 88,422 | 24.73 | Grover Cleveland | 234,883 | 65.7 | — | | | 13 | 146,461 |
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland | 225,309 | 69.26 | James G. Blaine | 93,141 | 28.63 | — | | | 13 | 132,168 |
| 1880 | James A. Garfield | 57,893 | 23.95 | Winfield S. Hancock | 156,428 | 64.71 | James B. Weaver | 27,405 | 11.34 | 8 | 98,535 |
| 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes | 44,800 | 29.96 | Samuel J. Tilden | 104,755 | 70.04 | — | | | 8 | 59,955 |
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant | 47,468 | 40.71 | Horace Greeley | 66,546 | 57.07 | — | | | 8 | 19,078 |
| 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant | No vote due to status of Reconstruction. | | Horatio Seymour | | | — | | | | |
| 1864 | Abraham Lincoln | No vote due to secession. | | George B. McClellan | | | — | | | | |
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## 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.
| Year | Winner (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Electoral votes |
| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln | no ballots | | Stephen A. Douglas | 18 | 0.0 | John C. Breckinridge | 47,454 | 75.5 | John Bell | 15,383 | 24.5 | 4 |
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## Elections prior to 1860

| Year | Winner (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Other national candidates | Votes | Percent | Electoral votes |
| 1856 | James Buchanan | 31,169 | 66.59 | John C. Frémont | no ballots | | Millard Fillmore | 15,639 | 33.41 | 4 |
| 1852 | Franklin Pierce | 13,552 | 73.07 | Winfield Scott | 4,995 | 26.93 | John P. Hale | no ballots | | 4 |
| 1848 | Zachary Taylor | 4,509 | 29.71 | Lewis Cass | 10,668 | 70.29 | Martin Van Buren | no ballots | | 4 |
| Bolded: Won Texas. |||||||||||

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