2016 United States presidential election in Texas

The 2016 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Primary elections were held on March 1, 2016.

2016 United States presidential election in Texas

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Turnout	59.4% (of registered voters) 46.5% (of voting age population)^[1]
Nominee Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Party Republican Democratic Home state New York New York Running mate Mike Pence Tim Kaine Electoral vote 36^[a] 0 Popular vote 4,685,047 3,877,868 Percentage 52.23% 43.24%
County results Congressional district results Precinct results Trump   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   90–100% Clinton   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   90–100%
President before election Barack Obama Democratic Elected President Donald Trump Republican

Results by county showing number of votes by size and candidates by color

Treemap of the popular vote by county

Texas was won by Republican Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence by a 8.99% margin over Democrats Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine. The Lone Star State assigned its 38 Electoral College votes to the state's popular vote winner, but two faithless electors chose other candidates, making Texas the only state in 2016 to give Trump fewer than the assigned electoral votes. Even then, its 36 electoral votes were Trump's largest electoral prize in 2016.

When the Electoral College met on December 19, 2016, only 36 out of the 38 electors voted for Trump for president. Two electors defected; one voted for Ohio Governor John Kasich, and the other voted for Congressman Ron Paul. For vice president, 37 electors voted for Pence, while one voted for Carly Fiorina. This was the first time since 1976 where a Republican presidential candidate lost a pledged vote via a faithless elector; that year, Gerald Ford lost a Washington state electoral vote to fellow Republican Ronald Reagan. Additionally, this was the first time since 1972 that the winning presidential candidate lost an electoral vote, when Richard Nixon lost a Virginia electoral vote to Libertarian Party nominee John Hospers.

Texas was one of the eleven states (and the District of Columbia) where Clinton improved on Barack Obama's performance in 2012.^[2] Clinton lost Texas by a smaller margin than any Democrat since 1996 (though Barack Obama got a slightly larger percentage of the vote in 2008), which analysts attributed to Trump losing ground with college-educated white voters. Trump's performance in the Lone Star state was the weakest of any victorious Republican nominee since Richard Nixon became the last Republican to be elected president without Texas in 1968. Trump was the tenth consecutive Republican presidential nominee to win Texas, beginning with Reagan in 1980. Nevertheless, he became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Bexar County since Richard Nixon in 1968, as well as the first to do so without carrying Fort Bend County since Herbert Hoover in 1928, and to do so without carrying Harris or Dallas County since Calvin Coolidge in 1924.

Primaries

Democratic primary

Main article: 2016 Texas Democratic presidential primary

The Texas Democratic Party held their state's primary in concurrence with the other Super Tuesday contests on March 1. Eight candidates appeared on the ballot, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, dropped-out candidate Martin O'Malley and five minor candidates (Rocky De La Fuente, Willie Wilson, Star Locke, Keith Russell Judd and Calvis Hawes.) The Texas Democratic primary had 251 delegates to the Democratic National Convention: 222 pledged delegates and 29 super delegates. 145 delegates were allocated proportionally based on the results in the state's 31 senatorial districts. The other 77 pledged delegates were allocated proportionally based on the statewide popular vote.^[3]

Results

2016 Texas Democratic Party presidential primary^[4]

Candidate	Popular vote		Delegates
	Count	Percentage	Pledged delegates	Super delegates	Total delegates
Hillary Clinton	936,004	65.19%	147	21	168
Bernie Sanders	476,547	33.19%	75	0	75
Rocky De Le Fuente	8,429	0.59%	0	0	0
Martin O'Malley	5,364	0.37%	0	0	0
Willie Wilson	3,254	0.23%	0	0	0
Keith Russell Judd	2,569	0.18%	0	0	0
Calvis L. Hawes	2,017	0.14%	0	0	0
Star Locke	1,711	0.12%	0	0	0
Uncommitted	n/a			8	8
Total:	1,435,895	100%	222	29	251

Key:	Withdrew prior to contest

Republican primary

2016 Texas Republican presidential primary

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Candidate Ted Cruz Donald Trump Marco Rubio Home state Texas New York Florida Delegate count 104 48 3 Popular vote 1,241,118 758,762 503,055 Percentage 43.76% 26.75% 17.74%

Texas results by county      Ted Cruz      Donald Trump

Debates and forums

February 24, 2016 – Houston, Texas

Megyn Kelly hosted a two-hour town hall event on The Kelly File with Kasich, Cruz, Rubio, and Carson in attendance. Trump did not participate in the forum.^[5]

February 25, 2016 – Houston, Texas

Candidate	Airtime^[6]	Polls^[7]
Trump	30:23	33.6%
Cruz	19:51	20.4%
Rubio	16:48	16.4%
Kasich	17:36	9.8%
Carson	10:15	7.4%

After the caucus in Nevada, the tenth debate was held at the University of Houston in Houston and broadcast by CNN as its third of four debates, in conjunction with Telemundo. The debate aired five days before 14 states voted on Super Tuesday, March 1. While the debate was to be held in partnership with Telemundo's English-language counterpart NBC, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus announced on October 30, 2015, that it had suspended the partnership in response to CNBC's "bad faith" in handling the October 28, 2015, debate.^[8][9] On January 18, 2016, the RNC announced that CNN would replace NBC News as the main host of the debate, in partnership with Telemundo and Salem Communications (CNN's conservative media partner). The debate was shifted a day earlier at the same time.^[10] National Review was disinvited by the Republican National Committee from co-hosting the debate over its criticism of GOP front-runner Donald Trump.^[11] On February 19, the criteria for invitation to the debate was announced: in addition to having official statements of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission and accepting the rules of the debate, candidates must have received at least 5% support in one of the first four election contests held in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.^[12] By these criteria, all five remaining candidates, Carson, Cruz, Kasich, Rubio, and Trump, qualified for invitation to the debate. The 155 delegates to the Republican National Convention were allocated in this way. 108 delegates are allocated by congressional district; 3 per district. If a candidate gets over 50% of the vote in a congressional district; they would win all of the district's 3 delegates. If no one had a majority and one candidate had at least 20% of the vote, the candidate winning the plurality would get 2 delegates and the candidate in second place would get 1 delegate. If nobody receives at least 20% of the vote, the top 3 vote-getters each get 1 delegate. There were another 47 at-large delegates. If someone received more than 50% of the vote, they would get all of the at-large delegates. If no one got more than 50% of the vote and there were at least 2 candidates that got over 20% of the vote, the delegates would be allocated proportionally among the candidates receiving more than 20% of the vote. If only one candidate got over 20% of the vote and not a majority, the delegates would be allocated between the candidate that got over 20% of the vote and the candidate who received the 2nd most votes. If no candidate got 20%, they would allocate all of the 47 at-large delegates proportionally.^[13]

Results

2016 Texas Republican Party presidential primary^[14]

Candidate	Popular vote		Delegates
	Count	Percentage
Ted Cruz	1,241,118	43.76%	104
Donald Trump	758,762	26.75%	48
Marco Rubio	503,055	17.74%	3
John Kasich	120,473	4.25%	0
Ben Carson	117,969	4.16%	0
Jeb Bush	35,420	1.25%	0
Uncommitted	29,609	1.04%	0
Rand Paul	8,000	0.28%	0
Mike Huckabee	6,226	0.22%	0
Elizabeth Gray	5,449	0.19%	0
Chris Christie	3,448	0.12%	0
Carly Fiorina	3,247	0.11%	0
Rick Santorum	2,006	0.07%	0
Lindsey Graham	1,706	0.06%	0
Total:	2,836,488	100%	155

Key:	Withdrew prior to contest

Green Party convention

The Texas Green Party held its party caucuses at conventions at the precinct level on March 8,^[15] the county level on March 12,^[16] and the district level on March 19,^[17] leading up to the state nominating convention in Grey Forest, Texas, on April 9 and 10.^[18]

On April 10 it was announced that Jill Stein had won the state convention.^[19]

Texas Green Party presidential caucus, Saturday, April 9, 2016

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	National delegates
Jill Stein	-	-	15
Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry	-	-	3
Darryl Cherney	-	-	2
Kent Mesplay	-	-	2
William Kreml	-	-	1
Total	-	100.00%	23

General election

Polling

Main article: Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 United States presidential election § Texas

Trump won every single pre-election poll with margins varying from 2 to 14 points. Trump won the last poll 49% to 35% and the average of the last three polls showed Trump leading 50% to 38%.^[20]

Predictions

The following are final 2016 predictions from various organizations for Texas as of Election Day.

Source	Ranking	As of
Los Angeles Times^[21]	Lean R	November 6, 2016
CNN^[22]	Safe R	November 8, 2016
Rothenberg Political Report^[23]	Safe R	November 7, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball^[24]	Safe R	November 7, 2016
NBC^[25]	Lean R	November 8, 2016
Electoral-vote.com^[26]	Lean R	November 8, 2016
RealClearPolitics^[27]	Likely R	November 8, 2016
Fox News^[28]	Lean R	November 7, 2016
ABC^[29]	Safe R	November 7, 2016

Results

The voting age population was 19,307,355, of which 15,101,087 were registered to vote. Turnout was 8,969,226, which is 46.45% of the voting age population and 59.39% of registered voters. The early voting period lasted for two weeks ending November 4, with 43.5% of registered voters casting early or absentee ballots. Out of those who cast votes, 73% cast their ballots early or absentee and 26% voted on Election Day.^[30]

Thirteen candidates received write-in votes, of which the large majority (42,366) went to Evan McMullin.

2016 United States presidential election in Texas^[31]

Party		Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Donald Trump	Mike Pence	4,685,047	52.23%	36
	Democratic	Hillary Clinton	Tim Kaine	3,877,868	43.24%	0
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson	William Weld	283,492	3.16%	0
	Green	Jill Stein	Ajamu Baraka	71,558	0.80%	0
	Write-in	Various candidates	Various candidates	51,261	0.57%	0
	Republican	John Kasich^[b]	Carly Fiorina^[b]	0	0.00%	1
	Libertarian^[32]	Ron Paul^[b]	Mike Pence^[c]	0	0.00%	1
Totals				8,969,226	100.00%	38
Turnout (VAP)						46.45%^[33]

 

2012-2016 Swing by Precinct

  Trump

•   >50%
•   40-50%
•   30-40%
•   20-30%
•   15-20%
•   10-15%
•   5-10%
•   1-5%

  Clinton

•   1-5%
•   5-10%
•   10-15%
•   15-20%
•   20-30%
•   30-40%
•   40-50%
•   >50%

By county

County ^[34]	Hillary R. Clinton		Donald J. Trump		Gary E. Johnson		Jill E. Stein		Others		Margin		Total
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Anderson	3,369	19.84%	13,201	77.76%	308	1.81%	57	0.34%	42	0.25%	9,832	57.91%	16,977
Andrews	836	16.91%	3,927	79.45%	147	2.97%	18	0.36%	15	0.30%	3,091	62.53%	4,943
Angelina	7,538	25.20%	21,668	72.44%	560	1.87%	106	0.35%	39	0.13%	14,130	47.24%	29,911
Aransas	2,465	23.45%	7,740	73.63%	238	2.26%	41	0.39%	28	0.27%	5,275	50.18%	10,512
Archer	394	9.20%	3,786	88.40%	80	1.87%	10	0.23%	13	0.30%	3,392	79.20%	4,283
Armstrong	70	6.86%	924	90.50%	18	1.76%	5	0.49%	4	0.39%	854	83.64%	1,021
Atascosa	4,651	34.02%	8,618	63.03%	308	2.25%	65	0.48%	31	0.23%	3,967	29.01%	13,673
Austin	2,320	18.90%	9,637	78.52%	248	2.02%	51	0.42%	18	0.15%	7,317	59.61%	12,274
Bailey	397	22.14%	1,344	74.96%	39	2.18%	5	0.28%	8	0.45%	947	52.82%	1,793
Bandera	1,726	16.89%	8,163	79.89%	262	2.56%	66	0.65%	1	0.01%	6,437	63.00%	10,218
Bastrop	10,569	37.14%	16,328	57.38%	1,063	3.74%	320	1.12%	174	0.61%	5,759	20.24%	28,454
Baylor	191	12.74%	1,267	84.52%	31	2.07%	3	0.20%	7	0.47%	1,076	71.78%	1,499
Bee	3,444	40.59%	4,744	55.91%	238	2.80%	34	0.40%	25	0.29%	1,300	15.32%	8,485
Bell	37,801	39.79%	51,998	54.74%	3,824	4.03%	812	0.85%	559	0.59%	14,197	14.95%	94,994
Bexar	319,550	54.19%	240,333	40.76%	20,091	3.41%	6,645	1.13%	3,026	0.51%	-79,217	-13.43%	589,645
Blanco	1,244	21.88%	4,212	74.09%	180	3.17%	33	0.58%	16	0.28%	2,968	52.21%	5,685
Borden	31	8.49%	330	90.41%	3	0.82%	1	0.27%	0	0.00%	299	81.92%	365
Bosque	1,278	16.31%	6,339	80.88%	155	1.98%	40	0.51%	26	0.33%	4,161	47.62%	7,838
Bowie	8,838	25.54%	24,924	72.03%	582	1.68%	145	0.42%	113	0.33%	16,086	46.49%	34,602
Brazoria	43,200	35.65%	72,791	60.07%	3,768	3.11%	806	0.67%	616	0.51%	29,591	24.42%	121,181
Brazos	23,121	34.40%	38,738	57.64%	3,813	5.67%	536	0.80%	1,003	1.49%	15,617	23.24%	67,211
Brewster	1,873	44.05%	2,077	48.85%	210	4.94%	77	1.81%	15	0.35%	204	4.80%	4,252
Briscoe	91	12.36%	625	84.92%	14	1.90%	4	0.54%	2	0.27%	534	72.55%	736
Brooks	1,937	74.61%	613	23.61%	32	1.23%	14	0.54%	0	0.00%	-1,324	-51.00%	2,596
Brown	1,621	11.56%	12,017	85.68%	253	1.80%	65	0.46%	70	0.50%	10,396	74.12%	14,026
Burleson	1,491	21.42%	5,316	76.38%	118	1.70%	20	0.29%	15	0.22%	3,825	54.96%	6,960
Burnet	3,797	19.77%	14,638	76.22%	564	2.94%	104	0.54%	101	0.53%	10,841	56.45%	19,204
Caldwell	4,795	39.65%	6,691	55.33%	446	3.69%	105	0.87%	55	0.45%	1,896	15.68%	12,092
Calhoun	2,118	30.41%	4,638	66.59%	168	2.41%	33	0.47%	8	0.11%	2,520	36.18%	6,965
Callahan	569	10.20%	4,865	87.20%	107	1.92%	23	0.41%	15	0.27%	4,296	77.00%	5,579
Cameron	59,402	64.51%	29,472	32.01%	2,236	2.43%	822	0.89%	147	0.16%	-29,930	-32.50%	92,079
Camp	1,260	27.74%	3,201	70.48%	66	1.45%	15	0.33%	0	0.00%	1,941	42.73%	4,542
Carson	249	8.40%	2,620	88.39%	68	2.29%	11	0.37%	16	0.54%	2,371	80.00%	2,964
Cass	2,391	19.37%	9,726	78.79%	145	1.17%	34	0.28%	48	0.39%	7,335	59.42%	12,344
Castro	526	26.34%	1,414	70.81%	47	2.35%	10	0.50%	0	0.00%	888	44.47%	1,997
Chambers	2,948	17.56%	13,339	79.47%	385	2.29%	59	0.35%	55	0.33%	10391	61.91%	16,786
Cherokee	3,469	20.66%	12,919	76.94%	305	1.82%	34	0.20%	63	0.38%	9450	56.28%	16,790
Childress	253	12.14%	1,802	86.47%	24	1.15%	5	0.24%	0	0.00%	1,549	74.33%	2,084
Clay	536	10.68%	4,377	87.23%	87	1.73%	12	0.24%	6	0.12%	3,841	76.55%	5,018
Cochran	190	21.09%	679	75.36%	29	3.22%	3	0.33%	0	0.00%	489	54.27%	901
Coke	140	9.84%	1,265	88.90%	16	1.12%	2	0.14%	0	0.00%	1,125	79.06%	1,423
Coleman	388	10.65%	3,177	87.21%	53	1.45%	18	0.49%	7	0.19%	2,789	76.56%	3,643
Collin	140,624	38.91%	201,014	55.62%	13,855	3.83%	2,539	0.70%	3,387	0.94%	60,390	16.71%	361,419
Collingsworth	145	12.54%	983	85.03%	22	1.90%	4	0.35%	2	0.17%	838	72.49%	1,156
Colorado	1,987	23.34%	6,325	74.30%	144	1.69%	37	0.43%	20	0.23%	4,338	50.96%	8,513
Comal	14,238	22.90%	45,136	72.59%	2,068	3.33%	343	0.55%	393	0.63%	30,898	49.69%	62,178
Comanche	789	15.07%	4,333	82.74%	88	1.68%	21	0.40%	6	0.11%	3,544	67.67%	5,237
Concho	148	13.86%	885	82.87%	27	2.53%	7	0.66%	1	0.09%	737	69.01%	1,068
Cooke	2,352	14.74%	13,181	82.61%	317	1.99%	60	0.38%	45	0.28%	10,829	67.87%	15,955
Coryell	5,064	27.74%	12,225	66.98%	704	3.86%	161	0.88%	99	0.54%	7,161	39.23%	18,253
Cottle	92	15.03%	506	82.68%	12	1.96%	2	0.33%	0	0.00%	414	67.65%	612
Crane	299	21.60%	1,049	75.79%	28	2.02%	7	0.51%	1	0.07%	750	54.19%	1,384
Crockett	372	26.67%	980	70.25%	39	2.80%	4	0.29%	0	0.00%	608	43.58%	1,395
Crosby	468	27.08%	1,181	68.34%	60	3.47%	5	0.29%	14	0.81%	713	41.26%	1,728
Culberson	454	59.19%	280	36.51%	23	3.00%	6	0.78%	4	0.52%	-174	-22.68%	767
Dallam	222	14.38%	1,261	81.67%	46	2.98%	9	0.58%	6	0.39%			1,544
Dallas	461,080	60.75%	262,945	34.64%	24,025	3.17%	6,114	0.81%	4,809	0.63%			758,973
Dawson	835	23.44%	2,636	73.98%	80	2.25%	11	0.31%	1	0.03%			3,563
Deaf Smith	1,185	28.11%	2,911	69.05%	91	2.16%	14	0.33%	15	0.36%			4,216
Delta	400	17.54%	1,836	80.49%	36	1.58%	7	0.31%	2	0.09%			2,281
Denton	110,890	37.13%	170,603	57.13%	11,583	3.88%	2,660	0.89%	2,909	0.97%			298,645
DeWitt	1,163	16.99%	5,519	80.64%	124	1.81%	27	0.39%	11	0.16%			6,844
Dickens	128	14.08%	755	83.06%	23	2.53%	3	0.33%	0	0.00%			909
Dimmit	2,173	67.38%	974	30.20%	57	1.77%	21	0.65%	0	0.00%			3,225
Donley	191	13.04%	1,225	83.62%	40	2.73%	5	0.34%	4	0.27%			1,465
Duval	2,783	66.77%	1,316	31.57%	49	1.18%	19	0.46%	1	0.02%			4,168
Eastland	776	11.14%	6,011	86.33%	120	1.72%	31	0.45%	25	0.36%			6,963
Ector	10,249	28.06%	25,020	68.49%	1,009	2.76%	167	0.46%	85	0.23%			36,530
Edwards	303	28.24%	746	69.52%	17	1.58%	5	0.47%	2	0.19%			1,073
Ellis	16,253	25.53%	44,941	70.58%	1,747	2.74%	325	0.51%	407	0.64%			63,673
El Paso	147,843	69.08%	55,512	25.94%	7,607	3.55%	2,945	1.38%	101	0.05%			214,008
Erath	2,160	15.55%	11,210	80.69%	378	2.72%	68	0.49%	77	0.55%			13,893
Falls	1,684	32.09%	3,441	65.57%	90	1.71%	23	0.44%	10	0.19%			5,248
Fannin	2,132	17.70%	9,548	79.28%	269	2.23%	46	0.38%	49	0.41%			12,044
Fayette	2,144	19.19%	8,743	78.24%	209	1.87%	45	0.40%	33	0.30%			11,174
Fisher	403	23.31%	1,265	73.16%	44	2.54%	10	0.58%	7	0.40%			1,729
Floyd	435	22.21%	1,474	75.24%	47	2.40%	3	0.15%	0	0.00%			1,959
Foard	113	22.03%	383	74.66%	14	2.73%	1	0.19%	2	0.39%			513
Fort Bend	134,686	51.39%	117,291	44.76%	6,907	2.64%	1,783	0.68%	1,399	0.53%			262,066
Franklin	665	15.18%	3,585	81.85%	96	2.19%	12	0.27%	22	0.50%			4,380
Freestone	1,471	19.14%	6,026	78.42%	139	1.81%	13	0.17%	35	0.46%			7,684
Frio	2,444	55.55%	1,856	42.18%	76	1.73%	24	0.55%	0	0.00%			4,400
Gaines	597	12.92%	3,907	84.57%	85	1.84%	20	0.43%	11	0.24%			4,620
Galveston	43,658	35.52%	73,757	60.01%	4,045	3.29%	889	0.72%	554	0.45%			122,903
Garza	230	15.50%	1,225	82.55%	21	1.42%	7	0.47%	1	0.07%			1,484
Gillespie	2,288	17.31%	10,446	79.05%	333	2.52%	61	0.46%	86	0.65%			13,214
Glasscock	34	5.63%	553	91.56%	13	2.15%	2	0.33%	2	0.33%			604
Goliad	973	26.24%	2,620	70.66%	101	2.72%	10	0.27%	4	0.11%			3,708
Gonzales	1,571	24.80%	4,587	72.42%	129	2.04%	28	0.44%	19	0.30%			6,334
Gray	701	9.47%	6,500	87.78%	144	1.94%	22	0.30%	38	0.51%			7,405
Grayson	10,301	21.72%	35,325	74.50%	1,258	2.65%	264	0.56%	268	0.57%			47,416
Gregg	11,677	27.97%	28,764	68.90%	903	2.16%	150	0.36%	255	0.61%			41,749
Grimes	2,194	23.01%	7,065	74.11%	219	2.30%	50	0.52%	5	0.05%			9,533
Guadalupe	18,391	31.81%	36,632	63.35%	2,022	3.50%	412	0.71%	365	0.63%			57,822
Hale	2,101	23.72%	6,366	71.87%	324	3.66%	43	0.49%	24	0.27%			8,858
Hall	164	15.03%	893	81.85%	34	3.12%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%			1,091
Hamilton	479	13.23%	3,060	84.53%	64	1.77%	10	0.28%	7	0.19%			3,620
Hansford	171	8.78%	1,730	88.85%	37	1.90%	9	0.46%	0	0.00%			1,947
Hardeman	249	16.46%	1,207	79.78%	48	3.17%	7	0.46%	2	0.13%			1,513
Hardin	2,780	12.20%	19,606	86.07%	353	1.55%	41	0.18%	0	0.00%			22,780
Harris	707,914	53.95%	545,955	41.61%	39,781	3.03%	11,784	0.90%	6,678	0.51%			1,312,112
Harrison	7,151	26.94%	18,749	70.62%	449	1.69%	76	0.29%	123	0.46%			26,548
Hartley	173	8.86%	1,730	88.63%	43	2.20%	3	0.15%	3	0.15%			1,952
Haskell	314	17.74%	1,403	79.27%	42	2.37%	6	0.34%	5	0.28%			1,770
Hays	33,224	46.04%	33,826	46.87%	3,630	5.03%	1,061	1.47%	423	0.59%			72,164
Hemphill	181	10.68%	1,462	86.25%	44	2.60%	2	0.12%	6	0.35%			1,695
Henderson	5,669	18.87%	23,650	78.72%	535	1.78%	102	0.34%	89	0.30%			30,045
Hidalgo	118,809	68.50%	48,642	28.05%	3,788	2.18%	1,856	1.07%	342	0.20%			173,437
Hill	2,547	19.64%	10,108	77.93%	256	1.97%	40	0.31%	19	0.15%			12,970
Hockley	1,260	17.23%	5,809	79.46%	199	2.72%	33	0.45%	10	0.14%			7,311
Hood	4,008	15.26%	21,382	81.42%	641	2.44%	113	0.43%	118	0.45%			26,262
Hopkins	2,510	18.54%	10,707	79.09%	220	1.63%	44	0.33%	57	0.42%			13,538
Houston	1,978	23.68%	6,205	74.28%	90	1.08%	29	0.35%	51	0.61%			8,353
Howard	1,770	20.29%	6,637	76.09%	232	2.66%	56	0.64%	28	0.32%			8,723
Hudspeth	324	37.20%	503	57.75%	38	4.36%	6	0.69%	0	0.00%			871
Hunt	6,396	20.27%	23,910	75.77%	862	2.73%	162	0.51%	224	0.71%			31,554
Hutchinson	854	10.47%	7,042	86.35%	210	2.58%	23	0.28%	26	0.32%			8,155
Irion	90	11.75%	660	86.16%	9	1.17%	1	0.13%	6	0.78%			766
Jack	314	9.37%	2,973	88.75%	42	1.25%	10	0.30%	11	0.33%			3,350
Jackson	904	17.05%	4,266	80.46%	78	1.47%	27	0.51%	27	0.51%			5,302
Jasper	2,590	19.30%	10,609	79.06%	156	1.16%	38	0.28%	26	0.19%			13,419
Jeff Davis	422	35.43%	695	58.35%	42	3.53%	17	1.43%	15	1.26%			1,191
Jefferson	42,443	48.44%	42,862	48.92%	1,714	1.96%	420	0.48%	179	0.20%			87,618
Jim Hogg	1,635	77.16%	430	20.29%	42	1.98%	12	0.57%	0	0.00%			2,119
Jim Wells	6,694	54.08%	5,420	43.78%	210	1.70%	40	0.32%	15	0.12%			12,379
Johnson	10,988	19.07%	44,382	77.04%	1,605	2.79%	324	0.56%	307	0.53%			57,606
Jones	936	15.70%	4,819	80.86%	162	2.72%	21	0.35%	22	0.37%			5,960
Karnes	1,145	27.27%	2,965	70.63%	70	1.67%	12	0.29%	6	0.14%			4,198
Kaufman	10,278	24.91%	29,587	71.70%	983	2.38%	197	0.48%	220	0.53%			41,265
Kendall	3,643	18.11%	15,700	78.03%	555	2.76%	87	0.43%	135	0.67%			20,120
Kenedy	99	53.23%	84	45.16%	3	1.61%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%			186
Kent	59	13.59%	360	82.95%	14	3.23%	0	0.00%	1	0.23%			434
Kerr	4,681	20.09%	17,727	76.09%	657	2.82%	116	0.50%	116	0.50%			23,297
Kimble	206	10.55%	1,697	86.94%	37	1.90%	5	0.26%	7	0.36%			1,952
King	5	3.14%	149	93.71%	5	3.14%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%			159
Kinney	458	32.03%	936	65.45%	25	1.75%	6	0.42%	5	0.35%			1,430
Kleberg	4,716	49.58%	4,367	45.91%	314	3.30%	92	0.97%	23	0.24%			9,512
Knox	247	18.07%	1,078	78.86%	28	2.05%	5	0.37%	9	0.66%			1,367
Lamar	3,583	19.25%	14,561	78.24%	343	1.84%	70	0.38%	54	0.29%			18,611
Lamb	771	19.30%	3,111	77.87%	85	2.13%	8	0.20%	20	0.50%			3,995
Lampasas	1,483	18.07%	6,385	77.82%	253	3.08%	47	0.57%	37	0.45%			8,205
La Salle	1,129	54.83%	872	42.35%	44	2.14%	10	0.49%	4	0.19%			2,059
Lavaca	1,170	13.51%	7,347	84.83%	112	1.29%	12	0.14%	20	0.23%			8,661
Lee	1,372	20.99%	4,997	76.47%	126	1.93%	28	0.43%	12	0.18%			6,535
Leon	909	12.22%	6,391	85.91%	94	1.26%	13	0.17%	32	0.43%			7,439
Liberty	4,862	20.04%	18,892	77.85%	364	1.50%	85	0.35%	64	0.26%			24,267
Limestone	1,778	22.97%	5,796	74.89%	128	1.65%	27	0.35%	10	0.13%			7,739
Lipscomb	135	10.14%	1,159	87.01%	25	1.88%	3	0.23%	10	0.75%			1,332
Live Oak	742	17.25%	3,464	80.52%	65	1.51%	13	0.30%	18	0.42%			4,302
Llano	1,825	17.47%	8,299	79.44%	205	1.96%	65	0.62%	53	0.51%			10,447
Loving	4	6.15%	58	89.23%	1	1.54%	2	3.08%	0	0.00%			65
Lubbock	28,023	28.30%	65,651	66.31%	3,917	3.96%	633	0.64%	789	0.80%			99,013
Lynn	403	20.06%	1,546	76.95%	41	2.04%	7	0.35%	12	0.60%			2,009
Madison	881	20.54%	3,351	78.13%	45	1.05%	8	0.19%	4	0.09%			4,289
Marion	1,165	27.49%	2,983	70.39%	71	1.68%	13	0.31%	6	0.14%			4,238
Martin	266	15.10%	1,455	82.58%	31	1.76%	5	0.28%	5	0.28%			1,762
Mason	354	17.21%	1,656	80.51%	37	1.80%	7	0.34%	3	0.15%			2,057
Matagorda	3,500	28.70%	8,366	68.60%	239	1.96%	53	0.43%	38	0.31%			12,196
Maverick	10,397	76.52%	2,816	20.72%	266	1.96%	109	0.80%	0	0.00%			13,588
McCulloch	482	15.53%	2,552	82.24%	51	1.64%	9	0.29%	9	0.29%			3,103
McLennan	27,063	34.22%	48,260	61.03%	2,492	3.15%	473	0.60%	787	1.00%			79,075
McMullen	40	8.02%	454	90.98%	2	0.40%	1	0.20%	2	0.40%			499
Medina	4,634	26.87%	12,085	70.07%	403	2.34%	106	0.61%	18	0.10%			17,246
Menard	154	17.82%	682	78.94%	25	2.89%	1	0.12%	2	0.23%			864
Midland	10,025	20.37%	36,973	75.13%	1,667	3.39%	203	0.41%	344	0.70%			49,212
Milam	2,051	23.67%	6,364	73.45%	178	2.05%	49	0.57%	22	0.25%			8,664
Mills	243	10.82%	1,951	86.90%	41	1.83%	6	0.27%	4	0.18%			2,245
Mitchell	354	16.12%	1,780	81.06%	50	2.28%	7	0.32%	5	0.23%			2,196
Montague	885	10.29%	7,526	87.47%	170	1.98%	23	0.27%	0	0.00%			8,604
Montgomery	45,835	22.40%	150,314	73.46%	6,142	3.00%	1,018	0.50%	1,323	0.65%			204,632
Moore	1,098	20.78%	3,977	75.26%	166	3.14%	26	0.49%	17	0.32%			5,284
Morris	1,425	28.65%	3,446	69.29%	77	1.55%	19	0.38%	6	0.12%			4,973
Motley	40	6.50%	566	92.03%	9	1.46%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%			615
Nacogdoches	6,846	30.26%	14,771	65.29%	702	3.10%	159	0.70%	144	0.64%			22,622
Navarro	4,002	24.35%	11,994	72.99%	343	2.09%	58	0.35%	36	0.22%			16,433
Newton	1,156	20.89%	4,288	77.48%	66	1.19%	13	0.23%	11	0.20%			5,534
Nolan	1,029	21.19%	3,552	73.13%	142	2.92%	22	0.45%	112	2.31%			4,857
Nueces	49,198	47.12%	50,766	48.62%	3,324	3.18%	847	0.81%	270	0.26%			104,405
Ochiltree	274	9.13%	2,628	87.54%	75	2.50%	5	0.17%	20	0.67%			3,002
Oldham	78	8.23%	850	89.66%	14	1.48%	3	0.32%	3	0.32%			948
Orange	5,735	17.92%	25,513	79.73%	550	1.72%	115	0.36%	87	0.27%			32,000
Palo Pinto	1,708	16.63%	8,284	80.66%	210	2.04%	48	0.47%	20	0.19%			10,270
Panola	1,835	17.62%	8,445	81.08%	109	1.05%	24	0.23%	3	0.03%			10,416
Parker	8,344	14.69%	46,473	81.79%	1,439	2.53%	215	0.38%	346	0.61%			56,817
Parmer	485	19.67%	1,915	77.66%	55	2.23%	4	0.16%	7	0.28%			2,466
Pecos	1,554	37.13%	2,468	58.97%	127	3.03%	26	0.62%	10	0.24%			4,185
Polk	4,187	21.09%	15,176	76.45%	367	1.85%	86	0.43%	36	0.18%			19,852
Potter	7,657	26.73%	19,630	68.51%	1,028	3.59%	190	0.66%	146	0.51%			28,651
Presidio	1,458	66.03%	652	29.53%	64	2.90%	29	1.31%	5	0.23%			2,208
Rains	628	13.36%	3,968	84.41%	80	1.70%	15	0.32%	10	0.21%			4,701
Randall	8,367	15.41%	43,462	80.03%	1,872	3.45%	228	0.42%	376	0.69%			54,305
Reagan	167	18.47%	709	78.43%	22	2.43%	2	0.22%	4	0.44%			904
Real	262	15.59%	1,382	82.21%	28	1.67%	6	0.36%	3	0.18%			1,681
Red River	1,149	22.26%	3,926	76.07%	67	1.30%	8	0.16%	11	0.21%			5,161
Reeves	1,659	52.10%	1,417	44.50%	98	3.08%	10	0.31%	0	0.00%			3,184
Refugio	1,034	35.07%	1,830	62.08%	71	2.41%	10	0.34%	3	0.10%			2,948
Roberts	20	3.61%	524	94.58%	6	1.08%	0	0.00%	4	0.72%			554
Robertson	2,203	31.31%	4,668	66.35%	125	1.78%	17	0.24%	22	0.31%			7,035
Rockwall	9,655	24.17%	28,451	71.22%	1,305	3.27%	207	0.52%	330	0.83%			39,948
Runnels	453	11.98%	3,250	85.93%	60	1.59%	13	0.34%	6	0.16%			3,782
Rusk	3,935	20.72%	14,675	77.26%	333	1.75%	51	0.27%	0	0.00%			18,994
Sabine	614	13.20%	3,998	85.96%	27	0.58%	9	0.19%	3	0.06%			4,651
San Augustine	910	25.50%	2,622	73.47%	30	0.84%	6	0.17%	1	0.03%			3,569
San Jacinto	2,038	19.70%	8,059	77.92%	170	1.64%	52	0.50%	24	0.23%			10,343
San Patricio	7,871	36.35%	13,030	60.17%	573	2.65%	113	0.52%	69	0.32%			21,656
San Saba	293	12.43%	2,025	85.91%	32	1.36%	4	0.17%	3	0.13%			2,357
Schleicher	208	19.64%	821	77.53%	24	2.27%	3	0.28%	3	0.28%			1,059
Scurry	733	13.86%	4,410	83.38%	103	1.95%	22	0.42%	21	0.40%			5,289
Shackelford	103	6.85%	1,378	91.62%	21	1.40%	0	0.00%	2	0.13%			1,504
Shelby	1,758	19.35%	7,179	79.01%	123	1.35%	21	0.23%	5	0.06%			9,086
Sherman	96	10.27%	807	86.31%	27	2.89%	3	0.32%	2	0.21%			935
Smith	22,300	26.31%	58,930	69.52%	2,076	2.45%	341	0.40%	1,121	1.32%			84,768
Somervell	541	13.88%	3,206	82.27%	107	2.75%	23	0.59%	20	0.51%			3,897
Starr	9,289	79.12%	2,224	18.94%	159	1.35%	68	0.58%	0	0.00%			11,740
Stephens	348	10.05%	3,034	87.66%	65	1.88%	7	0.20%	7	0.20%			3,461
Sterling	70	11.06%	549	86.73%	9	1.42%	5	0.79%	0	0.00%			633
Stonewall	135	19.26%	555	79.17%	10	1.43%	1	0.14%	0	0.00%			701
Sutton	313	22.10%	1,075	75.92%	22	1.55%	5	0.35%	1	0.07%			1,416
Swisher	462	20.96%	1,671	75.82%	51	2.31%	6	0.27%	14	0.64%			2,204
Tarrant	288,392	43.14%	345,921	51.74%	23,775	3.56%	5,413	0.81%	5,013	0.75%			668,514
Taylor	10,085	22.04%	33,250	72.66%	1,763	3.85%	289	0.63%	372	0.81%			45,759
Terrell	140	31.96%	288	65.75%	10	2.28%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%			438
Terry	753	22.44%	2,459	73.29%	112	3.34%	21	0.63%	10	0.30%			3,355
Throckmorton	84	10.40%	715	88.49%	7	0.87%	2	0.25%	0	0.00%			808
Titus	2,597	27.57%	6,511	69.13%	191	2.03%	44	0.47%	76	0.81%			9,419
Tom Green	9,173	23.84%	27,494	71.45%	1,402	3.64%	218	0.57%	192	0.50%			38,479
Travis	308,260	65.77%	127,209	27.14%	21,958	4.68%	7,462	1.59%	3,831	0.82%			468,720
Trinity	1,154	19.28%	4,737	79.15%	80	1.34%	11	0.18%	3	0.05%			5,985
Tyler	1,248	15.57%	6,624	82.63%	103	1.28%	22	0.27%	19	0.24%			8,016
Upshur	2,380	14.86%	13,209	82.49%	283	1.77%	59	0.37%	82	0.51%			16,013
Upton	286	21.23%	1,007	74.76%	49	3.64%	3	0.22%	2	0.15%			1,347
Uvalde	3,867	43.14%	4,835	53.94%	191	2.13%	54	0.60%	17	0.19%			8,964
Val Verde	6,964	51.14%	5,890	43.25%	573	4.21%	131	0.96%	59	0.43%			13,617
Van Zandt	2,799	12.79%	18,473	84.39%	385	1.76%	77	0.35%	156	0.71%			21,890
Victoria	8,866	28.49%	21,275	68.36%	782	2.51%	156	0.50%	44	0.14%			31,123
Walker	6,091	30.77%	12,884	65.08%	560	2.83%	161	0.81%	100	0.51%			19,796
Waller	5,748	34.25%	10,531	62.74%	342	2.04%	104	0.62%	59	0.35%			16,784
Ward	783	22.73%	2,547	73.93%	82	2.38%	10	0.29%	23	0.67%			3,445
Washington	3,382	22.81%	10,945	73.81%	352	2.37%	70	0.47%	79	0.53%			14,828
Webb	42,307	74.35%	12,947	22.75%	1,033	1.82%	591	1.04%	27	0.05%			56,905
Wharton	4,238	28.77%	10,149	68.89%	269	1.83%	51	0.35%	25	0.17%			14,732
Wheeler	194	8.41%	2,087	90.50%	21	0.91%	4	0.17%	0	0.00%			2,306
Wichita	8,770	23.01%	27,631	72.49%	1,308	3.43%	256	0.67%	154	0.40%			38,119
Wilbarger	809	19.71%	3,166	77.13%	115	2.80%	13	0.32%	2	0.05%			4,105
Willacy	3,422	67.16%	1,547	30.36%	95	1.86%	31	0.61%	0	0.00%			5,095
Williamson	84,468	41.59%	104,175	51.30%	10,229	5.04%	2,047	1.01%	2,162	1.06%			203,081
Wilson	4,790	24.65%	13,998	72.04%	392	2.02%	82	0.42%	170	0.87%			19,432
Winkler	420	22.39%	1,403	74.79%	49	2.61%	1	0.05%	3	0.16%			1,876
Wise	3,412	13.77%	20,670	83.43%	505	2.04%	91	0.37%	98	0.40%			24,776
Wood	2,630	14.04%	15,700	83.84%	280	1.50%	64	0.34%	53	0.28%			18,727
Yoakum	426	18.50%	1,797	78.03%	73	3.17%	3	0.13%	4	0.17%			2,303
Young	876	11.37%	6,601	85.65%	180	2.34%	19	0.25%	31	0.40%			7,707
Zapata	2,063	65.66%	1,029	32.75%	34	1.08%	16	0.51%	0	0.00%			3,142
Zavala	2,636	77.62%	694	20.44%	50	1.47%	16	0.47%	0	0.00%			3,396
Total	3,877,868	43.24%	4,685,047	52.23%	283,492	3.16%	71,558	0.80%	51,261	0.57%			8,969,226

 

County Flips:

Democratic   Hold   Gain from Republican

Republican   Hold   Gain from Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Jefferson (largest city: Beaumont)

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• Fort Bend (largest city: Sugar Land)
• Kenedy (largest community: Sarita)

By congressional district

Trump won 22 of 36 congressional districts, while Clinton won 14, including three held by Republicans ^[35]

District	Trump	Clinton	Representative
1st	72%	25%	Louie Gohmert
2nd	52%	43%	Ted Poe
3rd	54%	40%	Sam Johnson
4th	75%	22%	John Ratcliffe
5th	63%	34%	Jeb Hensarling
6th	54%	42%	Joe Barton
7th	47%	48%	John Culberson
8th	72%	24%	Kevin Brady
9th	18%	79%	Al Green
10th	52%	43%	Michael McCaul
11th	78%	19%	Mike Conaway
12th	62%	33%	Kay Granger
13th	80%	17%	Mac Thornberry
14th	58%	38%	Randy Weber
15th	40%	56%	Rubén Hinojosa
			Vicente Gonzalez
16th	27%	67%	Beto O'Rourke
17th	56%	38%	Bill Flores
18th	20%	76%	Sheila Jackson Lee
19th	72%	23%	Randy Neugebauer
			Jodey Arrington
20th	34%	60%	Joaquín Castro
21st	52%	42%	Lamar Smith
22nd	52%	44%	Pete Olson
23rd	46%	49%	Will Hurd
24th	51%	43%	Kenny Marchant
25th	55%	40%	Roger Williams
26th	60%	34%	Michael Burgess
27th	60%	36%	Blake Farenthold
28th	38%	58%	Henry Cuellar
29th	25%	71%	Gene Green
30th	18%	79%	Eddie Bernice Johnson
31st	53%	40%	John Carter
32nd	47%	48%	Pete Sessions
33rd	24%	73%	Marc Veasey
34th	38%	59%	Filemon Vela Jr.
35th	30%	64%	Lloyd Doggett
36th	72%	25%	Brian Babin

Analysis

While he continued the Republican 10-cycle winning streak in Texas,^[36] Trump's winning margin was down from Mitt Romney's 16% in 2012 to 8.99%, a 7.01% drop, making 2016 the closest Democrats had come to winning Texas since 1996 (though the Democrats also received a smaller percentage of the vote in Texas in this election than in the 2008 presidential election). The surge in Democratic votes can partly be attributed to a growing population of Hispanics/Latinos, Trump's relatively weak performance with college-educated white voters, and the growth of cities and their respective suburbs in the Texas Triangle region, which are heavily populated with both college-educated voters and minorities and thus swung more Democratic compared to 2012.^[37] These were Clinton's main sources of votes. She swept the Rio Grande region counties, such as El Paso, Webb, Hidalgo and Cameron as they have sizable Hispanic populations. Clinton scored a 38-point sweep in Travis County, home to the state capital and heavily liberal city of Austin, the best Democratic performance in the county since 1964. She became the first Democrat to break 60% of the vote in Dallas County since 1944. Furthermore, she outperformed Obama in the minority-heavy counties of Bexar (San Antonio) and Harris County (Houston), shifting his slim victories into double-digit leads.^[38] In fact, the Presidential vote in Texas' 7th Congressional District, which includes Houston's inner-west suburbs, had the biggest change in margin towards Clinton compared to Obama's 2012 performance outside of Utah, shifting 23 points left.^[39] Clinton also won suburban Fort Bend County for the first time since Texas native Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, which was attributed to the county's large immigrant population and negative perception of Trump by female Republican voters.^[40] While Clinton didn't win suburban counties such as Denton County, Williamson County, Collin County, or Hays County, her margin of defeat was much narrower than other Democratic presidential nominees. Trump on the other hand narrowly flipped Jefferson County in East Texas, becoming the first Republican since Richard Nixon in 1972 to win the county.^[41] Places that had large numbers of young voters in the state were a stronghold for Clinton as well.^[42] Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick suggested that Trump's relatively small margin of victory could have been largely due to many moderate Republican voters who had supported Romney in 2012 staying home. In an interview conducted the morning after the election, Patrick said in reference to these voters, "Had they turned out, he would've been in the low teens".^[43]

In total, Clinton beat Trump in 27 counties by a total of 883,819 votes, and had the best percentage performance than any other Democrat running statewide. Conversely, Trump, who won 227 of the state's 254 counties, got the smallest percentage of the vote of all Republicans running in the state.^[44]

See also

• United States presidential elections in Texas
• Presidency of Donald Trump
• 2016 Democratic Party presidential debates
• 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries
• 2016 Republican Party presidential debates
• 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries

Notes

1. Trump earned 38 pledged electoral votes, but lost two to electors. One elector voted for Ron Paul for president and Mike Pence for vice president, while Bill Greene voted for John Kasich for president and Carly Fiorina for vice president.
2. Did not run and was not a candidate, but received one electoral vote by a faithless elector.
3. Member of the Republican Party

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Further reading

• David Weigel; Lauren Tierney (October 4, 2020), , Washingtonpost.com, archived from the original on October 5, 2020.

External links

• RNC 2016 Republican Nominating Process November 8, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
• Green papers for 2016 primaries, caucuses, and conventions