Wichita Falls & Lawton · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1908–2024 · 30 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
88.0%
60,983 votes · D+76.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 82.5%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
75.2%
113,948 votes · R+51.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 73.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Jimmy Carter1976
75,231votes
56.3% of the vote · D+13.3
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 74,722 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
113,948votes
75.2% of the vote · R+51.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 113,183 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
+61.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+36.5 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +58.4 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+53.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.7 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +53.6 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Wichita Falls & Lawton · 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 Wichita Falls & Lawton, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton1647,238 votes · 16 of 16 countiesprimary
Obama8All others88,521 votes · 16 of 16 countiesprimary
Clinton8Sanders820,146 votes · 16 of 16 countiesprimary
Biden15Sanders117,243 votes · 16 of 16 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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.
Where a cell reads All others, no named candidate led — the source’s residual bucket did. That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes. It is a total, not a person, so it carries no candidate colour.
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
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+28.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+51.6
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 23 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Wichita Falls & Lawton
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
114,629
27,914
60,856
24,725
1,134
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−76 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −26,412 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Wichita Falls & Lawton in Wichita Falls & Lawton: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−3,375
2012
−3,616
2013
−3,878
2014
−3,189
2015
−5,784
2016
−4,572
2017
−2,045
2018
−2,385
2019
−808
2021
+3,286
2022
+1,509
2023
−22
2024
−1,457
2025
−76
Straddling the Texas-Oklahoma state line, this cross-border market centers on two mid-sized cities with heavy military influence from Fort Sill and Sheppard Air Force Base, producing consistently high Republican margins in federal elections.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 76.2 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 51.7 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 51.6 points.
A population of 417,066, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,370 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Abilene-Sweetwater and Tyler-Longview (Lufkin & Nacogdoches).
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How did Wichita Falls & Lawton, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, Wichita Falls & Lawton, Texas voted Republican by 51.6 points (R+51.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 151,583 votes cast, 35,713 went Democratic and 113,948 went Republican.
When did Wichita Falls & Lawton, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Wichita Falls & Lawton, Texas voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Wichita Falls & Lawton, Texas?
Wichita Falls & Lawton, Texas has a population of 417,066 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Wichita Falls & Lawton, Texas?
Median household income in Wichita Falls & Lawton, Texas is $62,370 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Wichita Falls & Lawton, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Wichita Falls & Lawton, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 14 went Republican.