Dallas-Fort Worth · 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
89.3%
168,198 votes · D+79.0
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 87.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
69.5%
618,350 votes · R+39.6
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 67.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
1,590,408votes
47.0% of the vote · R+4.4
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 1,489,434 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,899,926votes
55.1% of the vote · R+11.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,737,782 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 · James M. Cox, 1920 · +73.9 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+25.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+25.2 · U.S. D+0.5
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +23.5 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Dallas-Fort Worth · 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 Dallas-Fort Worth, 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 Dallas-Fort Worth
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
4,204,241
2018 (partial)
4,452,137
2020
4,855,858
2022
5,092,812
2024
5,398,592
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+25,862 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +783,528 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Dallas-Fort Worth in Dallas-Fort Worth: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+40,310
2012
+52,793
2013
+29,813
2014
+50,502
2015
+63,683
2016
+66,045
2017
+64,947
2018
+54,191
2019
+53,259
2021
+78,870
2022
+101,524
2023
+69,881
2024
+31,848
2025
+25,862
The Dallas–Fort Worth media market spans one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the country, where rapid suburban population growth and rising college-educated voter shares have compressed margins that once ran 20+ points in statewide races.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 39.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 7.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.9 points.
A population of 8,700,876, a 44% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $90,070 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Houston and Atlanta.
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In 2024, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas voted Republican by 11.9 points (R+11.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 3,445,391 votes cast, 1,489,434 went Democratic and 1,899,926 went Republican.
When did Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas?
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas has a population of 8,700,876 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas?
Median household income in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas is $90,070 — above the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 19 went Republican.
