Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, 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
88.2%
108,701 votes · D+76.9
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 86.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
69.4%
540,241 votes · R+39.5
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 68.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
1,535,525votes
49.8% of the vote · D+1.3
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 1,435,841 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,636,060votes
52.3% of the vote · R+6.4
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,495,550 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
+77.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+52.4 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +76.1 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+24.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+24.1 · U.S. D+0.5
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +21.2 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, 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
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
3,824,523
2018
4,062,090
2020
4,412,526
2022
4,631,331
2024
4,916,325
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+18,197 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +694,081 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+40,000
2012
+53,365
2013
+31,241
2014
+47,785
2015
+60,136
2016
+61,567
2017
+56,877
2018
+45,001
2019
+46,601
2021
+64,238
2022
+90,066
2023
+56,525
2024
+22,482
2025
+18,197
Rapid in-migration from coastal metros has shifted inner suburbs like Collin and Denton counties toward competitiveness, even as the broader metro's aggregate margin remained Republican by nearly 27 points in 2024.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 76.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 39.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 7.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.4 points.
A population of 7,985,590, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,044 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX and Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC.
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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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, Texas voted Republican by 6.4 points (R+6.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 3,125,726 votes cast, 1,435,841 went Democratic and 1,636,060 went Republican.
When did Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, Texas voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, Texas?
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, Texas has a population of 7,985,590 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, Texas?
Median household income in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, Texas is $92,044 — above the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 18 went Republican.
