Texas presidential election results 2008

John McCain carried Texas by 11.77 points (950,695 votes), winning 34 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 34
Votes counted: 8,077,795
TX result: R+11.8
Compared with the nation: 19.0 pts more Republican
Swing since 2004: 11.1 pts to D

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
John McCain	Republican	4,479,328	55.50%	34
Barack Obama	Democratic	3,528,633	43.70%	—
Total votes		8,077,795

Sources: 2008

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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Barack Obama	John McCain	Others	Total	Margin
Anderson	4,630	11,884	141	16,655	43.6
Andrews	790	3,816	23	4,629	65.4
Angelina	9,379	19,569	205	29,153	35.0
Aransas	3,006	6,693	79	9,778	37.7
Archer	740	3,595	30	4,365	65.4
Armstrong	128	856	6	990	73.5
Atascosa	4,415	5,462	61	9,938	10.5
Austin	2,821	8,786	114	11,721	50.9
Bailey	682	1,618	16	2,316	40.4
Bandera	2,250	6,935	112	9,297	50.4
Bastrop	11,687	13,817	414	25,918	8.2
Baylor	366	1,262	15	1,643	54.5
Bee	3,645	4,471	41	8,157	10.1
Bell	40,413	49,242	679	90,334	9.8
Bexar	275,527	246,275	3,913	525,715	5.6
Blanco	1,467	3,418	54	4,939	39.5
Borden	40	316	5	361	76.5
Bosque	1,797	5,762	87	7,646	51.9
Bowie	10,815	24,162	209	35,186	37.9
Brazoria	36,480	67,515	945	104,940	29.6
Brazos	20,502	37,465	706	58,673	28.9
Brewster	1,970	1,855	75	3,900	2.9
Briscoe	205	617	8	830	49.6
Brooks	1,747	556	6	2,309	51.6
Brown	2,822	12,052	141	15,015	61.5
Burleson	2,053	4,547	65	6,665	37.4
Burnet	4,608	12,059	226	16,893	44.1
Caldwell	5,403	6,107	138	11,648	6.0
Calhoun	2,729	4,106	44	6,879	20.0
Callahan	1,063	4,589	64	5,716	61.7
Cameron	48,480	26,671	506	75,657	28.8
Camp	1,734	2,798	35	4,567	23.3
Carson	406	2,548	26	2,980	71.9
Cass	3,490	8,279	77	11,846	40.4
Castro	719	1,562	10	2,291	36.8
Chambers	3,188	9,988	116	13,292	51.2
Cherokee	4,610	11,695	112	16,417	43.2
Childress	497	1,782	17	2,296	56.0
Clay	1,085	4,213	41	5,339	58.6
Cochran	284	758	15	1,057	44.8
Coke	299	1,252	18	1,569	60.7
Coleman	643	3,011	48	3,702	64.0
Collin	109,047	184,897	2,639	296,583	25.6
Collingsworth	234	943	18	1,195	59.3
Colorado	2,508	5,795	50	8,353	39.4
Comal	12,384	35,233	541	48,158	47.4
Comanche	1,334	3,813	70	5,217	47.5
Concho	257	807	13	1,077	51.1
Cooke	3,051	11,871	110	15,032	58.7
Coryell	6,619	11,550	163	18,332	26.9
Cottle	187	509	9	705	45.7
Crane	319	1,119	16	1,454	55.0
Crockett	512	1,026	7	1,545	33.3
Crosby	684	1,221	9	1,914	28.1
Culberson	492	257	10	759	31.0
Dallam	302	1,269	18	1,589	60.9
Dallas	422,989	310,000	5,474	738,463	15.3
Dawson	1,152	2,906	38	4,096	42.8
Deaf Smith	1,247	3,466	31	4,744	46.8
Delta	589	1,580	18	2,187	45.3
Denton	91,160	149,935	2,168	243,263	24.2
Dewitt	1,716	4,888	22	6,626	47.9
Dickens	234	730	8	972	51.0
Dimmit	2,692	874	21	3,587	50.7
Donley	291	1,374	25	1,690	64.1
Duval	3,298	1,076	35	4,409	50.4
Eastland	1,271	5,165	73	6,509	59.8
Ector	9,123	26,199	284	35,606	48.0
Edwards	346	673	16	1,035	31.6
El Paso	122,021	61,783	1,429	185,233	32.5
Ellis	15,333	38,078	442	53,853	42.2
Erath	3,128	10,768	123	14,019	54.5
Falls	2,225	3,328	46	5,599	19.7
Fannin	3,464	8,092	138	11,694	39.6
Fayette	3,014	7,582	118	10,714	42.6
Fisher	687	1,083	14	1,784	22.2
Floyd	730	1,784	7	2,521	41.8
Foard	198	327	13	538	24.0
Fort Bend	98,368	103,206	1,248	202,822	2.4
Franklin	1,036	3,392	63	4,491	52.5
Freestone	2,034	5,205	49	7,288	43.5
Frio	2,405	1,644	13	4,062	18.7
Gaines	650	3,385	32	4,067	67.2
Galveston	41,805	62,258	941	105,004	19.5
Garza	375	1,356	19	1,750	56.1
Gillespie	2,576	9,563	199	12,338	56.6
Glasscock	52	502	3	557	80.8
Goliad	1,329	2,298	28	3,655	26.5
Gonzales	2,167	4,076	44	6,287	30.4
Gray	1,153	6,924	56	8,133	71.0
Grayson	13,900	31,136	441	45,477	37.9
Gregg	13,166	29,203	241	42,610	37.6
Grimes	2,704	5,562	56	8,322	34.3
Guadalupe	16,156	30,869	436	47,461	31.0
Hale	2,708	7,171	64	9,943	44.9
Hall	324	930	10	1,264	47.9
Hamilton	863	2,876	39	3,778	53.3
Hansford	240	1,847	15	2,102	76.5
Hardeman	373	1,199	23	1,595	51.8
Hardin	3,939	16,603	160	20,702	61.2
Harris	590,982	571,883	8,607	1,171,472	1.6
Harrison	8,887	17,103	168	26,158	31.4
Hartley	250	1,711	24	1,985	73.6
Haskell	699	1,388	29	2,116	32.6
Hays	28,431	29,638	983	59,052	2.0
Hemphill	216	1,345	9	1,570	71.9
Henderson	7,913	20,857	223	28,993	44.6
Hidalgo	90,261	39,668	855	130,784	38.7
Hill	3,811	9,264	113	13,188	41.3
Hockley	1,797	5,795	53	7,645	52.3
Hood	5,087	17,299	210	22,596	54.0
Hopkins	3,530	9,299	90	12,919	44.7
Houston	2,656	5,872	96	8,624	37.3
Howard	2,545	7,029	115	9,689	46.3
Hudspeth	430	458	10	898	3.1
Hunt	8,594	20,573	357	29,524	40.6
Hutchinson	1,322	7,361	78	8,761	68.9
Irion	164	644	9	817	58.8
Jack	470	2,528	25	3,023	68.1
Jackson	1,301	3,723	33	5,057	47.9
Jasper	3,658	9,022	96	12,776	42.0
Jeff Davis	468	749	19	1,236	22.7
Jefferson	44,888	42,905	503	88,296	2.2
Jim Hogg	1,336	472	7	1,815	47.6
Jim Wells	6,706	4,841	65	11,612	16.1
Johnson	12,912	36,685	453	50,050	47.5
Jones	1,528	4,203	77	5,808	46.1
Karnes	1,760	2,736	31	4,527	21.6
Kaufman	11,161	23,735	249	35,145	35.8
Kendall	3,599	12,971	176	16,746	56.0
Kenedy	108	94	0	202	6.9
Kent	99	342	7	448	54.2
Kerr	5,570	16,752	234	22,556	49.6
Kimble	342	1,487	14	1,843	62.1
King	8	151	4	163	87.7
Kinney	633	907	11	1,551	17.7
Kleberg	5,256	4,540	80	9,876	7.2
Knox	367	986	15	1,368	45.2
La Salle	1,052	714	10	1,776	19.0
Lamar	5,243	12,952	167	18,362	42.0
Lamb	1,156	3,344	25	4,525	48.4
Lampasas	1,903	5,651	80	7,634	49.1
Lavaca	1,869	6,293	61	8,223	53.8
Lee	2,000	4,312	65	6,377	36.3
Leon	1,418	5,566	57	7,041	58.9
Liberty	5,991	15,448	187	21,626	43.7
Limestone	2,516	5,079	57	7,652	33.5
Lipscomb	155	1,093	8	1,256	74.7
Live Oak	1,048	3,095	33	4,176	49.0
Llano	2,250	7,281	98	9,629	52.2
Loving	12	67	0	79	69.6
Lubbock	30,486	66,304	744	97,534	36.7
Lynn	627	1,473	16	2,116	40.0
Madison	1,146	2,891	37	4,074	42.8
Marion	1,644	2,567	41	4,252	21.7
Martin	314	1,389	12	1,715	62.7
Mason	546	1,544	31	2,121	47.1
Matagorda	4,440	7,835	98	12,373	27.4
Maverick	8,554	2,316	69	10,939	57.0
McCulloch	728	2,263	19	3,010	51.0
McLennan	29,998	49,044	632	79,674	23.9
McMullen	132	400	5	537	49.9
Medina	5,147	10,480	110	15,737	33.9
Menard	295	712	11	1,018	41.0
Midland	9,691	36,155	370	46,216	57.3
Milam	3,044	5,217	96	8,357	26.0
Mills	398	1,753	26	2,177	62.2
Mitchell	586	1,815	30	2,431	50.6
Montague	1,597	6,245	108	7,950	58.5
Montgomery	36,703	119,884	1,260	157,847	52.7
Moore	1,123	4,282	32	5,437	58.1
Morris	2,055	3,158	35	5,248	21.0
Motley	67	522	5	594	76.6
Nacogdoches	8,393	14,828	170	23,391	27.5
Navarro	5,400	10,810	111	16,321	33.1
Newton	1,751	3,446	63	5,260	32.2
Nolan	1,521	3,485	57	5,063	38.8
Nueces	47,912	52,391	927	101,230	4.4
Ochiltree	243	2,851	15	3,109	83.9
Oldham	102	813	5	920	77.3
Orange	7,646	21,509	251	29,406	47.1
Palo Pinto	2,499	7,264	127	9,890	48.2
Panola	2,586	7,582	48	10,216	48.9
Parker	10,502	36,974	475	47,951	55.2
Parmer	719	2,969	25	3,713	60.6
Pecos	1,476	2,480	54	4,010	25.0
Polk	6,230	13,731	188	20,149	37.2
Potter	8,939	20,761	313	30,013	39.4
Presidio	1,252	489	16	1,757	43.4
Rains	1,048	3,146	42	4,236	49.5
Randall	9,468	41,948	416	51,832	62.7
Reagan	197	795	2	994	60.2
Real	375	1,238	15	1,628	53.0
Red River	1,539	3,461	52	5,052	38.0
Reeves	1,606	1,445	26	3,077	5.2
Refugio	1,382	1,855	24	3,261	14.5
Roberts	41	477	0	518	84.2
Robertson	2,675	3,980	55	6,710	19.4
Rockwall	8,492	23,300	274	32,066	46.2
Runnels	720	3,118	29	3,867	62.0
Rusk	4,983	13,646	93	18,722	46.3
Sabine	1,077	3,749	48	4,874	54.8
San Augustine	1,328	2,342	45	3,715	27.3
San Jacinto	2,721	6,151	86	8,958	38.3
San Patricio	8,854	12,404	138	21,396	16.6
San Saba	487	1,941	29	2,457	59.2
Schleicher	324	970	10	1,304	49.5
Scurry	1,088	4,414	67	5,569	59.7
Shackelford	208	1,284	13	1,505	71.5
Shelby	2,548	6,630	42	9,220	44.3
Sherman	127	884	9	1,020	74.2
Smith	23,726	55,187	648	79,561	39.5
Somervell	799	2,677	57	3,533	53.2
Starr	8,274	1,492	26	9,792	69.3
Stephens	626	2,869	31	3,526	63.6
Sterling	97	520	2	619	68.3
Stonewall	206	524	5	735	43.3
Sutton	381	1,189	8	1,578	51.2
Swisher	813	1,683	39	2,535	34.3
Tarrant	274,880	348,420	5,253	628,553	11.7
Taylor	12,690	34,317	432	47,439	45.6
Terrell	186	323	10	519	26.4
Terry	1,379	2,879	22	4,280	35.0
Throckmorton	166	671	1	838	60.3
Titus	3,145	6,028	72	9,245	31.2
Tom Green	11,158	27,362	341	38,861	41.7
Travis	254,017	136,981	6,716	397,714	29.4
Trinity	1,925	4,095	57	6,077	35.7
Tyler	2,166	5,644	100	7,910	44.0
Upshur	3,790	11,222	152	15,164	49.0
Upton	288	898	11	1,197	51.0
Uvalde	4,126	4,590	50	8,766	5.3
Val Verde	6,982	5,752	86	12,820	9.6
Van Zandt	4,505	15,734	156	20,395	55.1
Victoria	9,832	19,878	221	29,931	33.6
Walker	7,334	11,623	189	19,146	22.4
Waller	7,153	8,265	90	15,508	7.2
Ward	899	2,667	36	3,602	49.1
Washington	4,034	10,176	167	14,377	42.7
Webb	33,452	13,119	250	46,821	43.4
Wharton	4,937	9,431	50	14,418	31.2
Wheeler	314	1,918	13	2,245	71.4
Wichita	13,868	31,731	383	45,982	38.8
Wilbarger	1,196	3,283	30	4,509	46.3
Willacy	3,409	1,456	38	4,903	39.8
Williamson	67,691	88,323	2,389	158,403	13.0
Wilson	5,362	10,904	100	16,366	33.9
Winkler	477	1,529	26	2,032	51.8
Wise	4,471	15,973	195	20,639	55.7
Wood	4,010	13,658	116	17,784	54.3
Yoakum	450	1,989	19	2,458	62.6
Young	1,303	5,942	60	7,305	63.5
Zapata	1,939	919	8	2,866	35.6
Zavala	3,263	596	17	3,876	68.8

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read

Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

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Questions and answers

Who won Texas in 2008?

John McCain won Texas by 11.77 percentage points (950,695 votes).

How many electoral votes did Texas have in 2008?

Texas cast 34 electoral votes in 2008.

How many people voted for president in Texas in 2008?

8,077,795 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Texas in 2008?

John McCain 226, Barack Obama 28 (out of 254 counties with results).

How did Texas change from 2004 to 2008?

The margin moved 11.1 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Republican by 22.9 points to Republican by 11.8 points.

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data