Brenham, TX · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1912–2024 · 29 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
97.1%
3,443 votes · D+94.3
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 91.7%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
77.0%
14,020 votes · R+54.7
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 75.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
4,261votes
24.4% of the vote · R+49.8
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 4,058 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
14,020votes
77.0% of the vote · R+54.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 12,959 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
John W. Davis1924
+99.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+74.3 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +97.6 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+55.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.9 · U.S. D+3.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +54.3 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Brenham, TX · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain, and this place is a single county: Washington County, Texas. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Brenham, TX, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Brenham, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
22,951
2018
23,238
2020
23,947
2022
24,644
2024
25,794
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+563 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +4,132 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Brenham, TX in Brenham, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+146
2012
−115
2013
+194
2014
+136
2015
+382
2016
−157
2017
+92
2018
+614
2019
+409
2021
+220
2022
+543
2023
+822
2024
+283
2025
+563
Brenham, TX sits in the Gulf South and Southern Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.3 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 54.7 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 54.7 points.
A population of 36,647, a 61% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,825 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Gainesville, TX and Fredericksburg, TX.
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The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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In 2024, Brenham, TX, Texas voted Republican by 54.7 points (R+54.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 18,217 votes cast, 4,058 went Democratic and 14,020 went Republican.
When did Brenham, TX, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Brenham, TX, Texas voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Brenham, TX, Texas?
Brenham, TX, Texas has a population of 36,647 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Brenham, TX, Texas?
Median household income in Brenham, TX, Texas is $77,825 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Brenham, TX, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Brenham, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
