Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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
87.5%
82,775 votes · D+75.4
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 85.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
62.9%
458,339 votes · R+26.3
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 62.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
1,332,453votes
49.7% of the vote · D+0.7
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 1,216,384 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,400,279votes
52.6% of the vote · R+6.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,312,597 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
+66.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+41.0 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +53.5 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+17.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+17.3 · U.S. D+0.5
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · +15.9 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
3,470,160
2018
3,578,532
2020
3,936,930
2022
4,131,316
2024
4,376,399
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+7,308 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +395,967 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+23,937
2012
+39,267
2013
+54,588
2014
+67,409
2015
+62,395
2016
+27,539
2017
−8,952
2018
−8,899
2019
+7,316
2021
+26,259
2022
+37,649
2023
+40,015
2024
+20,136
2025
+7,308
Houston's electorate is roughly 44% Hispanic, 17% Black, and 33% non-Hispanic white, a mix that has steadily compressed Republican margins in countywide races while suburban nodes like The Woodlands continue to anchor conservative turnout.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.4 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 26.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 7.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.9 points.
A population of 7,442,788, a 33% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,674 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX and Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ.
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Political twins — metros
The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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How did Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, Texas voted Republican by 6.9 points (R+6.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,660,337 votes cast, 1,216,384 went Democratic and 1,400,279 went Republican.
When did Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, Texas voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, Texas?
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, Texas has a population of 7,442,788 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, Texas?
Median household income in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, Texas is $83,674 — above the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 18 went Republican.
