El Paso, 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
86.5%
12,283 votes · D+73.9
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · 84.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
60.2%
50,448 votes · R+21.2
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 57.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
178,497votes
66.5% of the vote · D+34.8
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 148,167 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
105,883votes
41.9% of the vote · D+14.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 85,110 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
+96.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+70.9 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 · +52.4 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
+4.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+15.6 · U.S. R+10.8
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · +3.5 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
El Paso, 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 El Paso, 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 El Paso, TX
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
427,851
2018
459,007
2020
490,555
2022
508,651
2024
524,157
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−6,642 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −76,598 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in El Paso, TX in El Paso, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+5,143
2012
−406
2013
−12,825
2014
−8,600
2015
−13,083
2016
−6,885
2017
−5,667
2018
−6,805
2019
−3,800
2021
−2,045
2022
−5,660
2023
−3,942
2024
−5,381
2025
−6,642
El Paso's population is roughly 80% Hispanic, making it one of the most demographically distinct large metros in Texas. Turnout fluctuations here draw outsized attention from statewide campaigns tracking Latino voter mobilization.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 73.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 21.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 19.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.9 points.
A population of 874,182, a 11% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,762 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of El Centro, CA and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, 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, El Paso, TX, Texas voted Democratic by 14.9 points (D+14.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 252,607 votes cast, 143,431 went Democratic and 105,883 went Republican.
When did El Paso, TX, Texas last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which El Paso, TX, Texas voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in El Paso, TX, Texas?
El Paso, TX, Texas has a population of 874,182 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in El Paso, TX, Texas?
Median household income in El Paso, TX, Texas is $59,762 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of El Paso, TX, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in El Paso, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 24 went Democratic and 5 went Republican.
