El Paso County, Texas: New American county. In 2024, voted D+15%. Democratic peak: D+73 in 1936.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+15MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- New AmericanAkashic typology
- Population
- 870,7792024 5-year
- Median household income
- $59,8062024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 29.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 82.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+73 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+21 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Santa Cruz County, AZ · similarity 0.99
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of El Paso CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for El Paso County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Harris +50Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
|---|---|
| 1876 | No data |
| 1880 | No data |
| 1884 | No data |
| 1888 | No data |
| 1892 | No data |
| 1896 | No data |
| 1900 | No data |
| 1904 | No data |
| 1908 | No data |
| 1912 | +63.1% |
| 1916 | +33.2% |
| 1920 | +0.9% |
| 1924 | +71.4% |
| 1928 | +0.5% |
| 1932 | +59.0% |
| 1936 | +73.5% |
| 1940 | +53.3% |
| 1944 | +59.5% |
| 1948 | +45.7% |
| 1952 | −15.6% |
| 1956 | −10.0% |
| 1960 | +9.4% |
| 1964 | +25.7% |
| 1968 | +3.4% |
| 1972 | −21.1% |
| 1976 | +3.1% |
| 1980 | −13.3% |
| 1984 | −12.0% |
| 1988 | +5.9% |
| 1992 | +15.2% |
| 1996 | +30.2% |
| 2000 | +18.1% |
| 2004 | +12.9% |
| 2008 | +32.5% |
| 2012 | +32.3% |
| 2016 | +42.8% |
| 2020 | +35.1% |
| 2024 | +15.1% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 143,156 | 105,124 | 252,005 | ||
| D | 178,126 | 84,331 | 267,215 | ||
| D | 147,843 | 55,512 | 215,922 | ||
| D | 112,952 | 57,150 | 172,703 | ||
| D | 122,021 | 61,783 | 185,233 | ||
| D | 95,142 | 73,261 | 169,573 | ||
| D | 83,848 | 57,574 | 145,042 | ||
| D | 83,964 | 43,255 | 134,710 | ||
| D | 67,715 | 47,224 | 135,163 | ||
| D | 62,622 | 55,573 | 118,781 | ||
| R | 51,917 | 66,114 | 118,430 | ||
| R | 40,082 | 53,276 | 99,526 | ||
| D | 45,477 | 42,697 | 89,465 | ||
| R | 32,435 | 49,981 | 83,090 | ||
| D | 32,658 | 30,347 | 68,116 | ||
| D | 35,050 | 20,687 | 55,927 | ||
| D | 26,027 | 21,551 | 47,677 | ||
| R | 15,157 | 18,532 | 33,882 | ||
| R | 14,595 | 20,005 | 34,647 | ||
| D | 15,341 | 5,544 | 21,448 | ||
| D | 11,426 | 2,072 | 15,718 | ||
| D | 12,374 | 3,764 | 16,165 | ||
| D | 11,920 | 1,773 | 13,809 | ||
| D | 11,336 | 2,841 | 14,392 | ||
| D | 6,114 | 6,050 | 12,164 | ||
| D | 7,678 | 1,220 | 9,040 | ||
| D | 4,143 | 4,070 | 8,286 | ||
| D | 3,603 | 1,770 | 5,518 | ||
| D | 2,914 | 291 | 4,159 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
German
3.6%
Irish
2.2%
American
2.2%
English
2.0%
Italian
1.1%
French
0.5%
African American
2.7%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
2024 ACS
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 33.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$59,806
El Paso County ranks near the middle of US counties.
El Paso County$59,806
Texas$78,476
United States$80,734
El Paso County ranks near the middle of US counties by median household income.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
18.7%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1824.6%
Working age (18–64)15.9%
Seniors (65+)26.3%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
32.0%
speak English only
Spanish66.1%
Other Indo-European0.9%
Asian & Pacific Islander0.8%
Other languages0.2%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 37.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
El Paso County sits at the Texas-New Mexico-Chihuahua junction and delivers some of the state's most consistent Democratic margins, driven by a population that is roughly 82% Hispanic — making it a key data point for tracking Latino electoral trends.
El Paso County has leaned Democratic in recent presidential elections, reaching a Democratic margin of seventy-three points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 it moved twenty points toward the Republican candidate — part of the sharpest rightward shift recorded among any group of places in the country.
Its demographics describe the shift: a 30% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $59,806, and a population of 870,779. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Santa Cruz County and Los Angeles County.
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Frequently asked questions
How did El Paso County, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, El Paso County, Texas voted Democratic by 15.1 points (D+15), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 252,005 votes cast, 143,156 went Democratic and 105,124 went Republican.
What is El Paso County, Texas's political typology?
Akashic places El Paso County, Texas in the "New American" typology — Communities where a large share of households speak a language other than English — multilingual, Democratic-leaning overall, yet the hardest-swinging bloc toward the Republican Party in 2024. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the county has voted Democratic 24 times, Republican 5 times, and other 0 times.
When did El Paso County, Texas last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which El Paso County, Texas voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in El Paso County, Texas?
El Paso County, Texas has a population of 870,779 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in El Paso County, Texas?
Median household income in El Paso County, Texas is $59,806 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of El Paso County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in El Paso County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 24 went Democratic and 5 went Republican. The county's typology — "New American" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.