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Texas

State facts

people (ACS)
30,188,424
House seats
38
president 2024
R +13.7
Republican

Governor Greg Abbott

Senators: 2 Republicans. House members: 13 Democrats, 24 Republicans.

Districts

38 House districts (2024 lines), 38 House districts (2026 lines), 31 State Senate districts and 150 State House districts. Texas redrew its House districts for 2026; their winners take the new seats on January 3, 2027.

Choose a district on the map or in the table. House districts follow the lines their members were elected on; state legislative districts are the ones drawn for 2024.

Texas: U.S. House, 2024 lines

38 districts

Texas’s 32nd: Held by Julie Johnson (D)Texas’s 25th: Held by Roger Williams (R)Texas’s 8th: Held by Morgan Luttrell (R)Texas’s 20th: Held by Joaquin Castro (D)Texas’s 16th: Held by Veronica Escobar (D)Texas’s 31st: Held by John Carter (R)Texas’s 21st: Held by Chip Roy (R)Texas’s 35th: Held by Gregorio Casar (D)Texas’s 26th: Held by Brandon Gill (R)Texas’s 13th: Held by Ronny Jackson (R)Texas’s 33rd: Held by Marc Veasey (D)Texas’s 30th: Held by Jasmine Crockett (D)Texas’s 12th: Held by Craig Goldman (R)Texas’s 24th: Held by Beth Van Duyne (R)Texas’s 6th: Held by Jake Ellzey (R)Texas’s 17th: Held by Pete Sessions (R)Texas’s 19th: Held by Jodey Arrington (R)Texas’s 9th: Held by Al Green (D)Texas’s 3rd: Held by Keith Self (R)Texas’s 2nd: Held by Dan Crenshaw (R)Texas’s 4th: Held by Pat Fallon (R)Texas’s 5th: Held by Lance Gooden (R)Texas’s 38th: Held by Wesley Hunt (R)Texas’s 15th: Held by Mónica De La Cruz (R)Texas’s 22nd: Held by Troy Nehls (R)Texas’s 1st: Held by Nathaniel Moran (R)Texas’s 29th: Held by Sylvia Garcia (D)Texas’s 14th: Held by Randy Weber Sr. (R)Texas’s 27th: Held by Michael Cloud (R)Texas’s 28th: Held by Henry Cuellar (D)Texas’s 23rd: No official on this site holds the seatTexas’s 7th: Held by Lizzie Fletcher (D)Texas’s 36th: Held by Brian Babin (R)Texas’s 11th: Held by August Pfluger II (R)Texas’s 18th: Held by Christian Menefee (D)Texas’s 10th: Held by Michael McCaul (R)Texas’s 37th: Held by Lloyd Doggett (D)Texas’s 34th: Held by Vicente Gonzalez (D)258163121352613333012617193245152211427282373611181034
U.S. House, 2024 lines districts of Texas
Texas’s 1stNathaniel MoranR779,0662022
Texas’s 2ndDan CrenshawR814,0762022
Texas’s 3rdKeith SelfR846,4842022
Texas’s 4thPat FallonR823,0112022
Texas’s 5thLance GoodenR806,9002022
Texas’s 6thJake EllzeyR793,9462022
Texas’s 7thLizzie FletcherD796,9502022
Texas’s 8thMorgan LuttrellR846,1182022

Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files (2025; 2026 lines from TIGER/Line 2026).

Notes

Districts are filled by the party of the officials on this site who hold them; a hatched district has no one here today or is shared by members of more than one party. “Lines since” is the first general election held on the district’s lines: results before it describe a different place.

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Who represents it

2 senators, 37 House members and a governor on this site, and 178 state legislators.

Each name links to the official’s profile: what they say, how they vote, their ideology and money.

Governor and senators

The House delegation

37 members, by district

The state legislature

Officials on this site by chamber and party

State legislators on this site by chamber and party
ChamberDemocratsRepublicansOthers
State Senate12180
State House62860

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Elections

2024 presidential vote: R +13.7. 42.5% Democratic, 56.2% Republican.

Results from Candidates in American General Elections (CAGE): certified from 1990 to 2024, and 2026 as it is counted (unofficial, from NYT and NBC reporting, until certified). Shares are of all votes cast.

U.S. Senate

2026

2026 general election: candidates by votes
CandidatePartyVotesShare
James TalaricocalledD5,224,82355.0%
Ken PaxtonR4,086,79743.1%
Ted Brown, Jr.Lbt180,0341.9%

Unofficial: about 91% of the expected vote counted; called by a network. Source: CAGE.

Earlier

  • 2024: Ted Cruz (R) won by 8.5 points
  • 2020: John Cornyn III (R) won by 9.6 points
  • 2018: Ted Cruz (R) won by 2.6 points
  • 2014: John Cornyn III (R) won by 27.2 points
  • 2012: Ted Cruz (R) won by 15.9 points

Governor

2026

2026 general election: candidates by votes
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Gina HinojosacalledD5,050,27852.8%
Greg AbbottincumbentR4,374,64945.7%
Pat DixonLbt140,6111.5%

Unofficial: about 93% of the expected vote counted; called by a network. Source: CAGE.

Earlier

  • 2022: Greg Abbott (R) won by 10.9 points
  • 2018: Greg Abbott (R) won by 13.3 points
  • 2014: Greg Abbott (R) won by 20.4 points
  • 2010: Rick Perry (R) won by 12.7 points
  • 2006: Rick Perry (R) won by 9.2 points

President

Statewide vote

Presidential vote in Texas by year
YearDemocraticRepublicanMargin
202442.5%56.2%R +13.7
202046.5%52.1%R +5.6
201643.5%52.5%R +9.1
201241.4%57.2%R +15.8
200843.8%55.5%R +11.8
200438.3%61.2%R +22.9
200038.1%59.4%R +21.4
199643.9%48.8%R +4.9
199237.1%40.6%R +3.5

U.S. House

Seats won and the statewide House vote

House seats and vote in Texas by year
YearD seatsR seatsD voteR vote
2026counting142452.6%47.0%
2024132540.4%58.4%
2022132538.7%58.8%
2020132344.1%53.4%
2018132347.0%50.4%
2016112537.1%57.2%
2014112533.1%60.3%
2012122438.5%57.8%
201092330.6%64.4%
2008122039.6%55.8%
2006131944.4%50.7%
2004112139.0%57.7%
2002171543.9%53.3%
2000171346.8%49.0%
1998171344.2%51.6%
1996151245.0%52.5%
1994191142.1%55.7%
199221949.9%47.8%
199019853.8%45.7%

In 2026 the seats are the races called so far.

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Who lives there

30,188,424 people, by the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.

Each figure beside the nation’s; ± is the 90 percent margin of error.

Texas at a glance

ACS 2020–2024 five-year estimates

People

30,188,424

A Census Bureau estimate

Median age

35.6

±0.1 · United States 38.9

Median household income

$78,476

±$263 · United States $80,734

Race and ethnicity

Share of everyone; Hispanic or Latino people may be of any race, the other groups are not Hispanic

Show the data
Race and ethnicity: texas beside United States
PartTexasUnited States
White39.1%57.4%
Black11.9%11.9%
Hispanic or Latino39.7%19.3%
Asian5.5%5.9%
Another race or more than one3.8%5.5%

Age, schooling, income and place

Texas over United States; ± is the 90 percent margin of error

0%40%
Texas
United States
±
Aged 65 and over
13.4%
17.2%
±0.0
Bachelor’s degree or moreadults 25 and over
33.8%
35.7%
±0.2
Below the poverty line
13.8%
12.4%
±0.1
Born outside the U.S.
17.6%
14.1%
±0.1
Veteranscivilian adults
6.2%
6.2%
±0.1
Living in rural areas2020 Census
16.3%
20.0%
Show the data
Shares of people: texas beside United States
RowTexasUnited States
Aged 65 and over13.4%17.2%
Bachelor’s degree or more (adults 25+)33.8%35.7%
Below the poverty line13.8%12.4%
Born outside the U.S.17.6%14.1%
Veterans (adults)6.2%6.2%
Living in rural areas (2020 Census)16.3%20.0%

Source: ACS 2020–2024 5-year estimates (Census Bureau); rural share from the 2020 Census.

About these figures

The figures from the American Community Survey are estimates from a sample, not a count. The ± beside each is its 90 percent margin of error: nine times in ten the true value lies within that range. In small districts the margins are wide, so a gap of a few points from United States may be noise. Shares are of everyone in the district, except education (adults 25 and over), poverty (people whose poverty status is known) and veterans (civilian adults).

These are the Census Bureau’s own estimates for the district; margins on shares are approximated from the counts’ margins.

The rural share counts the people living outside the urban areas the Census Bureau drew from the 2020 Census; it is a count, with no margin of error.

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Opinion

What Texas’s adults think, estimated from the lab’s national survey.

Estimates for each state come from multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP): a model of every respondent’s answers by age, race, education, sex and their state’s 2024 vote, weighted to the state’s population. Rank 1 is the highest of the 51 states. See Public Opinion for the questions and the national trends.

Partisan animosity: Texas’s estimates
Partisan animosityTXRankMedian state
Feelings gap between the parties51.6 50.7–52.52851.8
Very liberal or very conservative24% 23%–25%3826%
MAGA Republicans52% 51%–53%347%
Political violence: Texas’s estimates
Political violenceTXRankMedian state
Protesting without a permit27% 27%–28%4029%
Vandalism7.0% 6.7%–7.4%86.2%
Assault3.3% 3.1%–3.7%42.5%
Arson2.6% 2.4%–2.9%41.8%
Assault with a deadly weapon2.1% 1.9%–2.3%51.4%
Murder1.8% 1.6%–2.0%51.2%
Support for political violence (index)7.5% 7.1%–7.7%157.1%
Democratic norms: Texas’s estimates
Democratic normsTXRankMedian state
Censoring hostile media22% 22%–23%317%
Governing by executive order33% 32%–33%329%
Ignoring court rulings15% 14%–16%312%
Party over election rules20% 19%–20%314%
Cutting polling stations11% 11%–12%27.0%
Accepting norm breaches (index)20% 19%–21%416%
Issues: Texas’s estimates
IssuesTXRankMedian state
The economy over the next six months39% 37%–41%1035%
The economy over the past six months26% 24%–28%2225%
Free speech is secure22% 21%–24%820%
Amnesty for undocumented immigrants34% 32%–35%1130%
Deport immigrants here illegally48% 46%–49%3551%
Immigration is good for America68% 66%–70%1865%
More manufacturing jobs48% 46%–50%2948%
New tariffs36% 33%–38%1633%
New tariffs, if prices rise29% 27%–32%2529%
Notes

An estimate is uncertain, especially in small states: the 95% interval shows the range. Ranks between states whose intervals overlap mean little. Estimates as of Nov 3, 2026.

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What its officials say

3.7% of Texas’s officials’ statements make personal attacks, against 4.7% nationwide.

An AI model reads each statement (posts on X, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) and marks the kinds of statement it contains; a rate is the share of statements with that label, in the officials’ current terms. The Texas dashboard has the trends, topics and leaders.

Rates of each kind of statement in Texas and the nation
Kind of statementAll officialsMembers of CongressLegislators and governorNation
Personal attacks3.7%4.8%2.8%4.7%
Policy criticism14%20%9.6%16%
Policy discussion50%68%37%50%
Bipartisanship3.6%6.0%1.7%5.5%
Credit claiming21%29%14%19%
Extreme labels2.9%4.2%1.9%2.3%
Statements137,86859,95877,9101,724,578

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Ideology and lawmaking

48,627 bills in the Texas legislature since 2019, 5,306 of them law (10.9%).

CSIP is the lab’s ideology score from roll calls, donations and text, on one scale for every official (0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition). The legislature’s party gap is measured within each chamber from its own roll calls, in standard deviations of its members’ positions. See Bills for every legislature.

CSIP medians

By party and level

Median CSIP score by party and level
OfficialsMediann
D in Congress-0.9113
D in the legislature-0.4074
R in Congress1.2126
R governor1.431
R in the legislature0.50104

Party gap in the legislature

Latest term, from roll calls

Party gap by chamber and term
Chamber, termGap (SD)Members
State Senate, 2025-20261.6535
State House, 2025-20261.64153
State Senate, 2021-20221.9031
State House, 2021-20221.70147

Bills

State legislature, 2019 on

48,627

bills introduced

5,306 became law (10.9%)

The most bills are on Crime and Law Enforcement (13% of those with an area).

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Money

47% of itemized gifts to its members of Congress came from inside Texas; 86% of itemized gifts to its state officials came from inside Texas (latest cycle).

Itemized donations are individual gifts over $200 a cycle, the only ones reported with an address; totals and shares count those only. Aggregates only: no donor is named.

Members of Congress

2026 cycle · 38 officials · $39.2M itemized

Where itemized donations came from
Donors inShare
Texas47%
California9.0%
Florida5.9%
New York5.1%
Virginia3.8%

State officials

2026 cycle · 170 officials · $104.0M itemized

Where itemized donations came from
Donors inShare
Texas86%
California3.2%
Illinois1.7%
New York1.2%
Virginia0.9%

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Threats and violence

29 federal prosecutions for threatening officials in Texas, 81 threats or harassment of local officials since 2022, and 11 political violence events in the lab’s record.

Separate records, never added together: prosecutions the Justice Department announced (not every threat), the Bridging Divides Initiative’s record of threats and harassment against local officials, the lab’s record of political violence, the FBI’s hate crime statistics and the Crowd Counting Consortium’s protests. The Political Violence page has each record in full.

2.1

hate crimes per 100,000 (2025)

Agencies covering 100% of residents reported

1,261

protests in the last 12 months

2025-06 to 2026-05; 4.0 per 100,000

29

threat prosecutions announced

Justice Department press releases, 2010 on

Hate crimes reported to the FBI

Incidents per year

5001991: 95 incidents1992: 486 incidents1993: 417 incidents1994: 365 incidents1995: 326 incidents1996: 350 incidents1997: 338 incidents1998: 301 incidents1999: 263 incidents2000: 287 incidents2001: 436 incidents2002: 343 incidents2003: 290 incidents2004: 297 incidents2005: 264 incidents2006: 243 incidents2007: 242 incidents2008: 247 incidents2009: 165 incidents2010: 174 incidents2011: 153 incidents2012: 175 incidents2013: 142 incidents2014: 158 incidents2015: 191 incidents2016: 179 incidents2017: 184 incidents2018: 404 incidents2019: 406 incidents2020: 477 incidents2021: 553 incidents2022: 536 incidents2023: 502 incidents2024: 473 incidents2025: 655 incidents0655 in 202519912000201020202025
Notes

Reporting is voluntary: a year’s count rises and falls with the number of police agencies that took part, not only with crime. Few agencies reported in the early 1990s, and in 2021 the FBI took reports only through its incident-based system (NIBRS), which many agencies had not yet joined. The Political Violence page has each year’s coverage.

Where people protested

Counties with the most protest events, last 12 months

Protest events by county
Travis County267
Harris County199
Tarrant County64
Dallas County60
Bexar County57

Crowd Counting Consortium (CC0).

Back to topNext: Files

Files and sources

Every figure on this page is in the bulk files and the data API.

The state facts file has one row per state and every series by year or month, with the state boundaries; the API serves this state at /v1/states/TX. Sources: the Census Bureau (people, boundaries), Candidates in American General Elections and MIT Election Data and Science Lab (elections), the lab’s survey, the FBI, the Crowd Counting Consortium, the Justice Department, the Bridging Divides Initiative and the Global Terrorism Database. Credits and terms are on Open data.

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