Huntsville, 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
96.0%
1,715 votes · D+92.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 95.2%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
69.6%
17,515 votes · R+39.9
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 67.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
7,884votes
33.3% of the vote · R+31.7
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 7,461 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
17,515votes
69.6% of the vote · R+39.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 15,375 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
+104.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+79.7 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +73.0 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
+38.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+39.9 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +36.4 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Huntsville, 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: Walker 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 Huntsville, 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 Huntsville, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
32,474
2018
31,956
2020
35,038
2022
36,058
2024
38,958
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+253 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +8,663 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Huntsville, TX in Huntsville, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−72
2012
+30
2013
+523
2014
+316
2015
+378
2016
+690
2017
+663
2018
+114
2019
−319
2021
+1,876
2022
+1,226
2023
+2,332
2024
+653
2025
+253
Huntsville anchors Walker County, where the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's institutional presence — both as employer and as population counter — complicates straightforward demographic and partisan read-outs for analysts tracking the region.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 92.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 39.9 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 8.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 39.9 points.
A population of 80,209, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $52,324 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Nacogdoches, TX and Plainview, 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, Huntsville, TX, Texas voted Republican by 39.9 points (R+39.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 25,175 votes cast, 7,461 went Democratic and 17,515 went Republican.
When did Huntsville, TX, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Huntsville, TX, Texas voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Huntsville, TX, Texas?
Huntsville, TX, Texas has a population of 80,209 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Huntsville, TX, Texas?
Median household income in Huntsville, TX, Texas is $52,324 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Huntsville, TX, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Huntsville, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 14 went Republican.
