College Station-Bryan, 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. Roosevelt1936
96.1%
6,709 votes · D+92.3
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 93.9%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
68.7%
40,472 votes · R+37.7
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 67.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
39,511votes
38.7% of the vote · R+20.0
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 37,475 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
70,438votes
64.3% of the vote · R+30.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 59,919 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
+90.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+65.2 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +74.9 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+38.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.9 · U.S. D+3.9
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · +36.9 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
College Station-Bryan, TX · how this place’s counties split between candidates 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 there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in College Station-Bryan, 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 College Station-Bryan, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
128,767
2018
137,323
2020
146,421
2022
151,025
2024
159,824
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−1,647 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +11,531 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in College Station-Bryan, TX in College Station-Bryan, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−985
2012
−340
2013
+614
2014
+1,481
2015
+4,145
2016
+481
2017
+1,467
2018
−423
2019
+820
2021
+2,089
2022
+2,947
2023
+1,985
2024
−1,103
2025
−1,647
The metro's political profile is pulled in two directions: a large public university population concentrated in College Station and a more rural, older electorate in surrounding Brazos County, producing margins that can shift noticeably with student registration cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 92.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 37.7 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 10.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.1 points.
A population of 278,335, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,172 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Lubbock, TX and Waco, TX.
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Political twins — metros
The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
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How did College Station-Bryan, TX, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, College Station-Bryan, TX, Texas voted Republican by 30.1 points (R+30.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 109,488 votes cast, 37,475 went Democratic and 70,438 went Republican.
When did College Station-Bryan, TX, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which College Station-Bryan, TX, Texas voted Democratic was 1968.
How many people live in College Station-Bryan, TX, Texas?
College Station-Bryan, TX, Texas has a population of 278,335 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in College Station-Bryan, TX, Texas?
Median household income in College Station-Bryan, TX, Texas is $60,172 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of College Station-Bryan, TX, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in College Station-Bryan, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 14 went Republican.
