United States presidential elections in Texas

Presidential elections in Texas

Number of elections	41
Voted Democrat	26
Voted Republican	15
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. Since 1980 the state 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[1]	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes	Notes
2016	Donald Trump	4,683,352	52.4	Hillary Clinton	3,868,291	43.3	-	-		38
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	59.3	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	66.2	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	-			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	48.1	-			20
1924	Calvin Coolidge	130,023	19.78	John W. Davis	484,605	73.7	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	-			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	-			8
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes	104,755	70.04	Samuel J. Tilden	44,800	29.96	-			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.

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Loser (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Loser (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Loser (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

Elections prior to 1860

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Loser (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates[1]	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes	Notes
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

References

1. 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.