Presidio County, Texas: New American county. In 2024, voted D+30%. Democratic peak: D+80 in 1916.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+30MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- New AmericanAkashic typology
- Population
- 5,9302024 5-year
- Median household income
- $43,8022024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 45.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 79.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+80 in 1916MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+11 in 1952MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Wilkinson County, MS · similarity 1.00
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of Presidio CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Presidio County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Margin—
Turnout—
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 | +29.1% |
| 1916 | +79.9% |
| 1920 | +31.7% |
| 1924 | +57.2% |
| 1928 | +10.7% |
| 1932 | +76.9% |
| 1936 | +79.3% |
| 1940 | +69.6% |
| 1944 | +42.7% |
| 1948 | +60.3% |
| 1952 | −10.7% |
| 1956 | +2.3% |
| 1960 | +39.3% |
| 1964 | +45.7% |
| 1968 | +30.8% |
| 1972 | −7.6% |
| 1976 | +28.2% |
| 1980 | +17.6% |
| 1984 | +8.1% |
| 1988 | +33.3% |
| 1992 | +41.7% |
| 1996 | +47.9% |
| 2000 | +25.4% |
| 2004 | +23.5% |
| 2008 | +43.4% |
| 2012 | +42.8% |
| 2016 | +36.5% |
| 2020 | +33.4% |
| 2024 | +30.2% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 1,289 | 686 | 1,994 | ||
| D | 1,463 | 721 | 2,219 | ||
| D | 1,458 | 652 | 2,208 | ||
| D | 1,282 | 504 | 1,817 | ||
| D | 1,252 | 489 | 1,757 | ||
| D | 1,159 | 715 | 1,890 | ||
| D | 1,064 | 618 | 1,757 | ||
| D | 1,205 | 383 | 1,716 | ||
| D | 1,189 | 400 | 1,891 | ||
| D | 1,176 | 586 | 1,771 | ||
| D | 992 | 837 | 1,902 | ||
| D | 1,039 | 723 | 1,799 | ||
| D | 1,232 | 687 | 1,936 | ||
| R | 674 | 785 | 1,462 | ||
| D | 969 | 481 | 1,582 | ||
| D | 1,156 | 431 | 1,588 | ||
| D | 866 | 376 | 1,248 | ||
| D | 517 | 494 | 1,019 | ||
| R | 621 | 770 | 1,391 | ||
| D | 907 | 212 | 1,153 | ||
| D | 648 | 211 | 1,024 | ||
| D | 917 | 163 | 1,084 | ||
| D | 938 | 106 | 1,049 | ||
| D | 863 | 112 | 977 | ||
| D | 315 | 254 | 569 | ||
| D | 267 | 68 | 348 | ||
| D | 238 | 122 | 366 | ||
| D | 245 | 27 | 273 | ||
| D | 187 | 87 | 344 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
English
7.1%
Italian
5.5%
German
4.4%
Polish
4.3%
Irish
2.1%
French
1.4%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
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: 41.2 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
$43,802
Presidio County ranks in the bottom 10% of US counties.
Presidio County$43,802
Texas$78,476
United States$80,734
Presidio County ranks in the bottom 10% 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
32.0%
Nearly half of children live in poverty.
Children under 1852.6%
Working age (18–64)20.9%
Seniors (65+)53.2%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
28.3%
speak English only
Spanish71.2%
Asian & Pacific Islander0.5%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 28.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Despite covering nearly 4,000 square miles of Chihuahuan Desert, Presidio holds fewer than 8,000 residents — most concentrated in the border town of Presidio — and has backed Democratic presidential nominees by wide margins for decades.
Presidio County has leaned Democratic in recent presidential elections, reaching a Democratic margin of eighty points in 1916. Between 2020 and 2024 it moved three 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 45% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $43,802, and a population of 5,930. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Wilkinson County and Macon County.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Presidio County, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, Presidio County, Texas voted Democratic by 30.2 points (D+30), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,994 votes cast, 1,289 went Democratic and 686 went Republican.
What is Presidio County, Texas's political typology?
Akashic places Presidio 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 27 times, Republican 2 times, and other 0 times.
When did Presidio County, Texas last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Presidio County, Texas voted Republican was 1972.
How many people live in Presidio County, Texas?
Presidio County, Texas has a population of 5,930 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Presidio County, Texas?
Median household income in Presidio County, Texas is $43,802 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Presidio County, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Presidio County, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 27 went Democratic and 2 went Republican. The county's typology — "New American" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.