Laredo · 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
89.9%
11,082 votes · D+79.9
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 86.8%
Republican
William H. Taft1912
61.2%
1,087 votes · R+24.4
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 51.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Hillary Clinton2016
44,370votes
73.1% of the vote · D+50.1
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 43,668 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
36,354votes
51.4% of the vote · R+3.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 27,937 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
+68.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+43.1 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · +67.6 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+43.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+24.4 · U.S. D+19.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +2.1 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Laredo · 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 Laredo, 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 Laredo
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
123,291
2018
136,834
2020
146,097
2022
151,034
2024
156,718
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−2,398 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −31,419 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Laredo in Laredo: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−779
2012
−588
2013
−1,183
2014
−2,245
2015
−2,784
2016
−2,914
2017
−3,223
2018
−2,560
2019
−2,274
2021
−2,157
2022
−3,270
2023
−2,293
2024
−2,751
2025
−2,398
Laredo anchors a media market that is over 95% Hispanic, making it one of the most demographically uniform media markets in the country — yet its voter participation rates have historically lagged well behind Texas averages.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 24.4 points in 1912. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 25.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.6 points.
A population of 283,135, a 4% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,894 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen and El Paso (Las Cruces).
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The media markets whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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In 2024, Laredo, Texas voted Republican by 3.6 points (R+3.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 70,736 votes cast, 33,829 went Democratic and 36,354 went Republican.
When did Laredo, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Laredo, Texas voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in Laredo, Texas?
Laredo, Texas has a population of 283,135 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Laredo, Texas?
Median household income in Laredo, Texas is $61,894 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Laredo, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Laredo, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 27 went Democratic and 2 went Republican.
