Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen · 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
85.0%
4,125 votes · D+75.8
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 78.8%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
60.2%
32,185 votes · R+20.6
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 56.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
204,493votes
57.1% of the vote · D+15.1
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 190,922 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
184,094votes
51.8% of the vote · R+4.4
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 150,247 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
+71.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+46.7 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +56.3 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
+9.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+20.6 · U.S. R+10.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +3.0 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen · 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 Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, 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
Voter registration in Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen
Year
Total registered
2016
579,410
2018
614,604
2020
657,073
2022
690,465
2024
732,755
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−3,870 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −72,827 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen in Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−243
2012
−5,469
2013
−8,318
2014
−6,966
2015
−9,616
2016
−8,292
2017
−7,913
2018
−7,813
2019
−6,000
2021
−306
2022
−2,034
2023
−2,381
2024
−3,606
2025
−3,870
This South Texas media market is among the most heavily Hispanic in the United States, with Democratic margins historically wide but showing measurable rightward shifts in recent cycles as working-class border communities reassess party allegiances.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 20.6 points in 1952. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 19.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.4 points.
A population of 1,404,303, a 7% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,023 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Laredo and El Paso (Las Cruces).
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How did Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, Texas voted Republican by 4.4 points (R+4.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 355,402 votes cast, 168,310 went Democratic and 184,094 went Republican.
When did Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, Texas voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, Texas?
Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, Texas has a population of 1,404,303 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, Texas?
Median household income in Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, Texas is $53,023 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 25 went Democratic and 4 went Republican.
