Waco, 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. Roosevelt1932
91.9%
19,082 votes · D+84.4
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 91.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
67.5%
39,341 votes · R+35.2
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 66.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
40,148votes
35.5% of the vote · R+27.4
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 37,322 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
77,095votes
66.7% of the vote · R+34.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 71,189 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
+83.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+58.1 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +66.6 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+36.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+32.1 · U.S. D+3.9
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +33.2 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Waco, 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 Waco, 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 Waco, TX
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
141,291
2018
160,597
2020
172,546
2022
177,469
2024
183,531
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+716 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +13,693 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Waco, TX in Waco, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+361
2012
−533
2013
−13
2014
−324
2015
+653
2016
+546
2017
+2,883
2018
+1,419
2019
+1,203
2021
+2,767
2022
+1,708
2023
+2,035
2024
+272
2025
+716
The Waco metro has long leaned conservative in federal contests, but steady in-migration tied to Baylor University and light manufacturing diversification is gradually reshaping its voter age and educational profile.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 84.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 35.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 7.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 34.6 points.
A population of 302,045, a 55% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,246 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Lubbock, TX and San Angelo, 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, Waco, TX, Texas voted Republican by 34.6 points (R+34.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 115,525 votes cast, 37,100 went Democratic and 77,095 went Republican.
When did Waco, TX, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Waco, TX, Texas voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Waco, TX, Texas?
Waco, TX, Texas has a population of 302,045 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Waco, TX, Texas?
Median household income in Waco, TX, Texas is $66,246 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Waco, TX, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Waco, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.
