Election results: How Texas voted in 2024
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The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to helping you navigate Texas policy and politics — including the 2024 elections. Here are the election results of the Texas 2024 elections on Nov. 5.
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What you should know:
- In the Presidential race, Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in Texas to pick up the state’s 40 electoral votes. Meanwhile, U.S. Sen Ted Cruz defeated Democrat Colin Allred.
- Republicans expanded their majority in the Texas House by flipping two seats in historically Democratic border districts.
- South Texas continued its march to the right in another astonishing political shift for the region at the southernmost point of Texas, where upwards of 90% of residents are Latino.
- U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar won reelection in his South Texas congressional district despite a federal indictment.
- After months of anticipation and partisan fights over election administration, voting in Texas went relatively smoothly on Election Day, with election officials reporting no major disruptions.
- What are your thoughts on the 2024 elections? Help us cover Texans’ top concerns about the elections.
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President
Former President Donald Trump easily won Texas’ 40 electoral votes, a big prize in the presidential race, by about 13.7 percentage points. His margin of victory in Texas was larger than it was in 2020, which was about 5.6 percentage points, and his nine-point margin in 2016.
U.S. Senate
Incumbent Senator Ted Cruz won a third six-year term, defeating U.S. Rep. Colin Allred. Both candidates collectively raised about $160 million making it the most expensive U.S. Senate race that year.
U.S. House Texas delegation
Texas has 38 congressional seats, and all were up for election this year, with most incumbents running again. There are four new members of the Texas delegation who will serve in January. Texas House Republican Craig Goldman won the District 12 seat to replace U.S. Rep. Kay Granger while Republican Brandon Gill won the seat of outgoing U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess in District 26. On the Democratic side, Texas House Rep. Julie Johnson won in U.S. House District 32, which was left open by Allred who ran for U.S. Senate. Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner will replace U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee who died this summer.
Railroad Commissioner
In Texas, the Railroad Commission regulates the oil and gas industry. Members of the three-person board are elected statewide. One seat was up for election in 2024, and Republican incumbent Christi Craddick won reelection.
State Board of Education
There are 15 districts within the State Board of Education, which sets curriculum and chooses textbooks for Texas public schools. A total of 8 seats were up for election this year, with one open because former District 13 member Aicha Davis ran for a state House seat. Stakes were high in the five competitive races because board members may be revising the states’ social studies curriculum next year. Republicans retained their majority, holding ten seats with the Democrats only holding five.
Texas Supreme Court
The Texas Supreme Court, the state’s highest civil court, has nine justices who are elected statewide. Three of the nine seats on the Supreme Court were up for election in 2024.
Despite facing heat from Democrats over their recent abortion rulings, all three Republican incumbents won reelection. Republicans continue to hold all seats.
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is the state’s highest criminal court. The nine judges are elected statewide and are currently all Republicans. All three Republican incumbent judges whose seats were up for reelection lost their primaries after Paxton sought political revenge in response to a 2021 ruling by the court that struck down Paxton’s ability to unilaterally prosecute voter fraud. All three of those Paxton-backed Republican challengers won in their general elections.
Texas Senate
In the 31-member Texas Senate, 15 seats were up for election in 2024. Republicans were able to successfully flip Democratic State Sen. Morgan LaMantia’s seat, adding to their majority.
Texas House
There are 150 members of the Texas House. Each serves a two-year term and all were up for election this year.
This year, fewer House Republican incumbents were on the ballot thanks to separate efforts by Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton in the primaries to unseat House Republicans who voted to impeach Paxton or were against school vouchers.
In addition, Republicans were able to flip two more seats widening their majority to 88 for next year’s legislative session.
What we’re seeing
Domestic mail-in ballots turned in and postmarked by election day were counted if they arrived no later than 5 p.m. on Nov. 6. Mail-in ballots from military and overseas voters had to be postmarked by election day and arrive no later than Nov. 12. In close races, mail-in votes help determine the winner, which can delay the race being called. The certification of final election results was completed by the counties on Nov. 18 and were released by the Secretary of State in late November.
The Texas Tribune’s election data was provided by The Associated Press, which gathers voting information from the secretary of state’s office, county election sites and stringers on the ground in Texas. The AP called winners and provided estimates on how many votes had been counted.
About the data
Election results data provided by The Associated Press.
Candidate information from the Texas Secretary of State’s office, the Texas Democratic Party, the Republican Party of Texas and Texas Tribune research.
Contributions by Emily Albracht and Reagan Hicks.
Correction: A previous version of this page said three U.S. Congressional districts in Texas had open seats in the 2024 election. There were four.