Texas presidential election results 2016

Donald J. Trump carried Texas by 9.00 points (807,179 votes), winning 38 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 38
Votes counted: 8,969,226
TX result: R+9.0
Compared with the nation: 11.0 pts more Republican
Swing since 2012: 6.8 pts to D

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Donald J. Trump	Republican	4,685,047	52.20%	38
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	3,877,868	43.20%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	283,492	3.20%	—
Total votes		8,969,226

Sources: tx.pdf · 2016

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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

County	Hillary Clinton	Donald J. Trump	Others	Total	Margin
Anderson	3,369	13,201	407	16,977	57.9
Andrews	836	3,927	180	4,943	62.5
Angelina	7,538	21,668	705	29,911	47.2
Aransas	2,465	7,740	307	10,512	50.2
Archer	394	3,786	103	4,283	79.2
Armstrong	70	924	27	1,021	83.6
Atascosa	4,651	8,618	404	13,673	29.0
Austin	2,320	9,637	317	12,274	59.6
Bailey	397	1,344	52	1,793	52.8
Bandera	1,726	8,163	329	10,218	63.0
Bastrop	10,569	16,328	1,557	28,454	20.2
Baylor	191	1,267	41	1,499	71.8
Bee	3,444	4,744	297	8,485	15.3
Bell	37,801	51,998	5,195	94,994	14.9
Bexar	319,550	240,333	29,762	589,645	13.4
Blanco	1,244	4,212	229	5,685	52.2
Borden	31	330	4	365	81.9
Bosque	1,278	6,339	221	7,838	64.6
Bowie	8,838	24,924	840	34,602	46.5
Brazoria	43,200	72,791	5,190	121,181	24.4
Brazos	23,121	38,738	5,352	67,211	23.2
Brewster	1,873	2,077	302	4,252	4.8
Briscoe	91	625	20	736	72.6
Brooks	1,937	613	46	2,596	51.0
Brown	1,621	12,017	388	14,026	74.1
Burleson	1,491	5,316	153	6,960	55.0
Burnet	3,797	14,638	769	19,204	56.5
Caldwell	4,795	6,691	606	12,092	15.7
Calhoun	2,118	4,638	209	6,965	36.2
Callahan	569	4,865	145	5,579	77.0
Cameron	59,402	29,472	3,205	92,079	32.5
Camp	1,260	3,201	81	4,542	42.7
Carson	249	2,620	95	2,964	80.0
Cass	2,391	9,726	227	12,344	59.4
Castro	526	1,414	57	1,997	44.5
Chambers	2,948	13,339	499	16,786	61.9
Cherokee	3,469	12,919	402	16,790	56.3
Childress	253	1,802	29	2,084	74.3
Clay	536	4,377	105	5,018	76.5
Cochran	190	679	32	901	54.3
Coke	140	1,265	18	1,423	79.1
Coleman	388	3,177	78	3,643	76.6
Collin	140,624	201,014	19,781	361,419	16.7
Collingsworth	145	983	28	1,156	72.5
Colorado	1,987	6,325	201	8,513	51.0
Comal	14,238	45,136	2,804	62,178	49.7
Comanche	789	4,333	115	5,237	67.7
Concho	148	885	35	1,068	69.0
Cooke	2,352	13,181	422	15,955	67.9
Coryell	5,064	12,225	964	18,253	39.2
Cottle	92	506	14	612	67.6
Crane	299	1,049	36	1,384	54.2
Crockett	372	980	43	1,395	43.6
Crosby	468	1,181	79	1,728	41.3
Culberson	454	280	33	767	22.7
Dallam	222	1,261	61	1,544	67.3
Dallas	461,080	262,945	34,948	758,973	26.1
Dawson	835	2,636	92	3,563	50.5
Deaf Smith	1,185	2,911	120	4,216	40.9
Delta	400	1,836	45	2,281	63.0
Denton	110,890	170,603	17,152	298,645	20.0
Dewitt	1,163	5,519	162	6,844	63.6
Dickens	128	755	26	909	69.0
Dimmit	2,173	974	78	3,225	37.2
Donley	191	1,225	49	1,465	70.6
Duval	2,783	1,316	69	4,168	35.2
Eastland	776	6,011	176	6,963	75.2
Ector	10,249	25,020	1,261	36,530	40.4
Edwards	303	746	24	1,073	41.3
El Paso	147,843	55,512	10,653	214,008	43.1
Ellis	16,253	44,941	2,479	63,673	45.1
Erath	2,160	11,210	523	13,893	65.1
Falls	1,684	3,441	123	5,248	33.5
Fannin	2,132	9,548	364	12,044	61.6
Fayette	2,144	8,743	287	11,174	59.1
Fisher	403	1,265	61	1,729	49.9
Floyd	435	1,474	50	1,959	53.0
Foard	113	383	17	513	52.6
Fort Bend	134,686	117,291	10,089	262,066	6.6
Franklin	665	3,585	130	4,380	66.7
Freestone	1,471	6,026	187	7,684	59.3
Frio	2,444	1,856	100	4,400	13.4
Gaines	597	3,907	116	4,620	71.6
Galveston	43,658	73,757	5,488	122,903	24.5
Garza	230	1,225	29	1,484	67.0
Gillespie	2,288	10,446	480	13,214	61.7
Glasscock	34	553	17	604	85.9
Goliad	973	2,620	115	3,708	44.4
Gonzales	1,571	4,587	176	6,334	47.6
Gray	701	6,500	204	7,405	78.3
Grayson	10,301	35,325	1,790	47,416	52.8
Gregg	11,677	28,764	1,308	41,749	40.9
Grimes	2,194	7,065	274	9,533	51.1
Guadalupe	18,391	36,632	2,799	57,822	31.5
Hale	2,101	6,366	391	8,858	48.1
Hall	164	893	34	1,091	66.8
Hamilton	479	3,060	81	3,620	71.3
Hansford	171	1,730	46	1,947	80.1
Hardeman	249	1,207	57	1,513	63.3
Hardin	2,780	19,606	394	22,780	73.9
Harris	707,914	545,955	58,243	1,312,112	12.3
Harrison	7,151	18,749	648	26,548	43.7
Hartley	173	1,730	49	1,952	79.8
Haskell	314	1,403	53	1,770	61.5
Hays	33,224	33,826	5,114	72,164	0.8
Hemphill	181	1,462	52	1,695	75.6
Henderson	5,669	23,650	726	30,045	59.8
Hidalgo	118,809	48,642	5,986	173,437	40.5
Hill	2,547	10,108	315	12,970	58.3
Hockley	1,260	5,809	242	7,311	62.2
Hood	4,008	21,382	872	26,262	66.2
Hopkins	2,510	10,707	321	13,538	60.5
Houston	1,978	6,205	170	8,353	50.6
Howard	1,770	6,637	316	8,723	55.8
Hudspeth	324	503	44	871	20.6
Hunt	6,396	23,910	1,248	31,554	55.5
Hutchinson	854	7,042	259	8,155	75.9
Irion	90	660	16	766	74.4
Jack	314	2,973	63	3,350	79.4
Jackson	904	4,266	132	5,302	63.4
Jasper	2,590	10,609	220	13,419	59.8
Jeff Davis	422	695	74	1,191	22.9
Jefferson	42,443	42,862	2,313	87,618	0.5
Jim Hogg	1,635	430	54	2,119	56.9
Jim Wells	6,694	5,420	265	12,379	10.3
Johnson	10,988	44,382	2,236	57,606	58.0
Jones	936	4,819	205	5,960	65.2
Karnes	1,145	2,965	88	4,198	43.4
Kaufman	10,278	29,587	1,400	41,265	46.8
Kendall	3,643	15,700	777	20,120	59.9
Kenedy	99	84	3	186	8.1
Kent	59	360	15	434	69.4
Kerr	4,681	17,727	889	23,297	56.0
Kimble	206	1,697	49	1,952	76.4
King	5	149	5	159	90.6
Kinney	458	936	36	1,430	33.4
Kleberg	4,716	4,367	429	9,512	3.7
Knox	247	1,078	42	1,367	60.8
La Salle	1,129	872	58	2,059	12.5
Lamar	3,583	14,561	467	18,611	59.0
Lamb	771	3,111	113	3,995	58.6
Lampasas	1,483	6,385	337	8,205	59.7
Lavaca	1,170	7,347	144	8,661	71.3
Lee	1,372	4,997	166	6,535	55.5
Leon	909	6,391	139	7,439	73.7
Liberty	4,862	18,892	513	24,267	57.8
Limestone	1,778	5,796	165	7,739	51.9
Lipscomb	135	1,159	38	1,332	76.9
Live Oak	742	3,464	96	4,302	63.3
Llano	1,825	8,299	323	10,447	62.0
Loving	4	58	3	65	83.1
Lubbock	28,023	65,651	5,339	99,013	38.0
Lynn	403	1,546	60	2,009	56.9
Madison	881	3,351	57	4,289	57.6
Marion	1,165	2,983	90	4,238	42.9
Martin	266	1,455	41	1,762	67.5
Mason	354	1,656	47	2,057	63.3
Matagorda	3,500	8,366	330	12,196	39.9
Maverick	10,397	2,816	375	13,588	55.8
McCulloch	482	2,552	69	3,103	66.7
McLennan	27,063	48,260	3,752	79,075	26.8
McMullen	40	454	5	499	83.0
Medina	4,634	12,085	527	17,246	43.2
Menard	154	682	28	864	61.1
Midland	10,025	36,973	2,214	49,212	54.8
Milam	2,051	6,364	249	8,664	49.8
Mills	243	1,951	51	2,245	76.1
Mitchell	354	1,780	62	2,196	64.9
Montague	885	7,526	193	8,604	77.2
Montgomery	45,835	150,314	8,483	204,632	51.1
Moore	1,098	3,977	209	5,284	54.5
Morris	1,425	3,446	102	4,973	40.6
Motley	40	566	9	615	85.5
Nacogdoches	6,846	14,771	1,005	22,622	35.0
Navarro	4,002	11,994	437	16,433	48.6
Newton	1,156	4,288	90	5,534	56.6
Nolan	1,029	3,552	276	4,857	51.9
Nueces	49,198	50,766	4,441	104,405	1.5
Ochiltree	274	2,628	100	3,002	78.4
Oldham	78	850	20	948	81.4
Orange	5,735	25,513	752	32,000	61.8
Palo Pinto	1,708	8,284	278	10,270	64.0
Panola	1,835	8,445	136	10,416	63.5
Parker	8,344	46,473	2,000	56,817	67.1
Parmer	485	1,915	66	2,466	58.0
Pecos	1,554	2,468	163	4,185	21.8
Polk	4,187	15,176	489	19,852	55.4
Potter	7,657	19,630	1,364	28,651	41.8
Presidio	1,458	652	98	2,208	36.5
Rains	628	3,968	105	4,701	71.0
Randall	8,367	43,462	2,476	54,305	64.6
Reagan	167	709	28	904	60.0
Real	262	1,382	37	1,681	66.6
Red River	1,149	3,926	86	5,161	53.8
Reeves	1,659	1,417	108	3,184	7.6
Refugio	1,034	1,830	84	2,948	27.0
Roberts	20	524	10	554	91.0
Robertson	2,203	4,668	164	7,035	35.0
Rockwall	9,655	28,451	1,842	39,948	47.1
Runnels	453	3,250	79	3,782	74.0
Rusk	3,935	14,675	384	18,994	56.5
Sabine	614	3,998	39	4,651	72.8
San Augustine	910	2,622	37	3,569	48.0
San Jacinto	2,038	8,059	246	10,343	58.2
San Patricio	7,871	13,030	755	21,656	23.8
San Saba	293	2,025	39	2,357	73.5
Schleicher	208	821	30	1,059	57.9
Scurry	733	4,410	146	5,289	69.5
Shackelford	103	1,378	23	1,504	84.8
Shelby	1,758	7,179	149	9,086	59.7
Sherman	96	807	32	935	76.0
Smith	22,300	58,930	3,538	84,768	43.2
Somervell	541	3,206	150	3,897	68.4
Starr	9,289	2,224	227	11,740	60.2
Stephens	348	3,034	79	3,461	77.6
Sterling	70	549	14	633	75.7
Stonewall	135	555	11	701	59.9
Sutton	313	1,075	28	1,416	53.8
Swisher	462	1,671	71	2,204	54.9
Tarrant	288,392	345,921	34,201	668,514	8.6
Taylor	10,085	33,250	2,424	45,759	50.6
Terrell	140	288	10	438	33.8
Terry	753	2,459	143	3,355	50.8
Throckmorton	84	715	9	808	78.1
Titus	2,597	6,511	311	9,419	41.6
Tom Green	9,173	27,494	1,812	38,479	47.6
Travis	308,260	127,209	33,251	468,720	38.6
Trinity	1,154	4,737	94	5,985	59.9
Tyler	1,248	6,624	144	8,016	67.1
Upshur	2,380	13,209	424	16,013	67.6
Upton	286	1,007	54	1,347	53.5
Uvalde	3,867	4,835	262	8,964	10.8
Val Verde	6,964	5,890	763	13,617	7.9
Van Zandt	2,799	18,473	618	21,890	71.6
Victoria	8,866	21,275	982	31,123	39.9
Walker	6,091	12,884	821	19,796	34.3
Waller	5,748	10,531	505	16,784	28.5
Ward	783	2,547	115	3,445	51.2
Washington	3,382	10,945	501	14,828	51.0
Webb	42,307	12,947	1,651	56,905	51.6
Wharton	4,238	10,149	345	14,732	40.1
Wheeler	194	2,087	25	2,306	82.1
Wichita	8,770	27,631	1,718	38,119	49.5
Wilbarger	809	3,166	130	4,105	57.4
Willacy	3,422	1,547	126	5,095	36.8
Williamson	84,468	104,175	14,438	203,081	9.7
Wilson	4,790	13,998	644	19,432	47.4
Winkler	420	1,403	53	1,876	52.4
Wise	3,412	20,670	694	24,776	69.7
Wood	2,630	15,700	397	18,727	69.8
Yoakum	426	1,797	80	2,303	59.5
Young	876	6,601	230	7,707	74.3
Zapata	2,063	1,029	50	3,142	32.9
Zavala	2,636	694	66	3,396	57.2

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).

Certified state documentCertified

Texas Secretary of State, Race Summary Report, 11/8/2016 General Election canvass (78 pages); page 1 President/Vice-President statewide
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Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).

All 17 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Donald J. Trump / Mike Pence REP	REP	4,685,047	52.23%
Hillary Clinton / Tim Kaine DEM	DEM	3,877,868	43.24%
Gary Johnson / William Weld LIB	LIB	283,492	3.16%
Jill Stein / Ajamu Baraka GRN	GRN	71,558	0.80%
Evan McMullin / Nathan Johnson W-I	—	42,366	0.47%
Darrell L. Castle / Scott N. Bradley W-I	—	4,261	0.05%
Michael A. Maturen / Juan A. Munoz W-I	—	1,401	0.02%
Laurence Kotlikoff / Edward Leamer W-I	—	1,037	0.01%
Tom Hoefling / Steve Schulin W-I	—	932	0.01%
Tony Valdivia / Aaron Barriere W-I	—	428	0.00%
Scott Cubbler / Michael Rodriguez W-I	—	314	0.00%
Robert Morrow / Todd Sanders W-I	—	145	0.00%
Monica Moorehead / Lamont Lilly W-I	—	122	0.00%
Emidio Soltysik / Angela Walker W-I	—	72	0.00%
Dale Steffes / Paul E. Case W-I	—	71	0.00%
Jonathan Lee / Jeffrey Erskine W-I	—	67	0.00%
Cherunda Fox / Roger Kushner W-I	—	45	0.00%

Notes on how this document was read

Write-in tickets carry the party code W-I and are kept as named candidates.

Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber), numeric tokens taken as the row's values under the spec's column labels; each row's digits matched against PyMuPDF's words (second extraction)

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Questions and answers

Who won Texas in 2016?

Donald J. Trump won Texas by 9.00 percentage points (807,179 votes).

How many electoral votes did Texas have in 2016?

Texas cast 38 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Texas in 2016?

8,969,226 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Texas in 2016?

Donald J. Trump 227, Hillary Clinton 27 (out of 254 counties with results).

How did Texas change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 6.8 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Republican by 15.8 points to Republican by 9.0 points.

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