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2026 results · Texas · Texas Senate

James Talarico, the Democrat, flips Texas's Senate seat

Donald Trump carried Texas by 13.7 points in 2024; this year's count is a 25.8-point move toward the Democrats. The Republicans held it before the election.

Texas Senate: votes counted for each candidate
CandidateVotesShareShare of the vote
James TalaricoDemocrat5,444,98255.1%
Ken PaxtonRepublican4,249,37343.0%
Ted BrownLibertarian190,2371.9%
4 others5,1120.1%

Called by Call the Map, Nov 4, 8:45 AM EST · 98% counted.

About 98% of the expected vote counted9,889,704 votesCount last changed Nov 4, 5:48 PM EST · checked Nov 7, 5:11 PM ESTSource: Texas Secretary of State

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What moved most

Scroll through Texas, part by part. The parts follow the federal government’s metropolitan areas: each big metro’s core counties, its suburbs and outer suburbs, the smaller metro areas, then the small towns and countryside.

What the count shows

Added together, the 254 counties compared moved 25.8 points toward the Democrats from the 2024 presidential vote.

The counties compared cast 87% as many votes as in 2024, from 95% in Hays County to 67% in Zapata County. Where turnout ran higher, the county moved more toward the Democrats (r = 0.28).

Webb County moved most: R+2.2 for president in 2024, D+47.3 this year

The 10 counties with the largest moves from the 2024 presidential vote, among those with 2,000 or more votes for president in 2024 and a quarter of that counted, and at least half a percent of the state's 2024 vote. Each line runs from the 2024 margin to this year’s.

CountyR+50EvenD+50Move
Webb County58,356 votes49.5 pts → D
Hidalgo County202,572 votes49.3 pts → D
Cameron County102,032 votes44.3 pts → D
El Paso County218,537 votes32.8 pts → D
Brazos County80,000 votes30.8 pts → D
Kaufman County62,292 votes29.1 pts → D
Harris County1,383,480 votes27.4 pts → D
Fort Bend County331,893 votes27.0 pts → D
Ellis County88,596 votes26.6 pts → D
Hays County119,756 votes26.4 pts → D

2024 president 2026

Harris County added 369,761 net votes for Talarico against the 2024 margin, 13% of the statewide change

Across the 254 counties compared, the margin moved by 2,753,956 votes toward Talarico: this year’s lead in votes against the 2024 presidential lead in votes, county by county. The figure counts voters who changed sides and differences in who turned out alike; the count cannot tell them apart.

  1. Harris County+369,761 Talarico
  2. Tarrant County+182,221 Talarico
  3. Dallas County+168,315 Talarico
  4. Bexar County+159,589 Talarico
  5. Collin County+112,726 Talarico
  6. Hidalgo County+100,346 Talarico
  7. Travis County+92,722 Talarico
  8. Denton County+92,425 Talarico

28 counties Donald Trump carried in 2024 are led by Talarico this year

Striped on the map above. Largest first; the 24 largest of 28, leaving out any under 2,000 votes in 2024.

  • Tarrant CountyR+5.1D+19.2
  • Collin CountyR+11.1D+12.1
  • Denton CountyR+13.2D+8.4
  • Williamson CountyR+2.4D+20.3
  • Hidalgo CountyR+2.9D+46.5
  • Brazoria CountyR+19.7D+5.4
  • Bell CountyR+16.2D+5.1
  • Cameron CountyR+5.8D+38.5
  • Nueces CountyR+11.5D+11.5
  • Brazos CountyR+24.9D+6.0
  • Jefferson CountyR+8.9D+13.2
  • Kaufman CountyR+27.9D+1.3
  • Webb CountyR+2.2D+47.3
  • Bastrop CountyR+18.4D+10.9
  • Caldwell CountyR+14.4D+15.7
  • Starr CountyR+16.0D+55.8
  • Maverick CountyR+18.5D+41.0
  • Val Verde CountyR+26.6D+12.2
  • Jim Wells CountyR+15.5D+15.4
  • Kleberg CountyR+12.7D+14.9
  • Willacy CountyR+3.3D+35.0
  • Brewster CountyR+12.6D+11.3
  • Frio CountyR+24.6D+11.3
  • Duval CountyR+9.8D+36.7

What the places that moved have in common

Each of Texas’s counties, set against the Census Bureau’s figures for who lives there. A pattern across counties, not an exit poll: it does not say how any group of people voted.

Urban, suburban and rural counties

Urban7 counties, 50% of the vote24.6 pts → D
Suburban40 counties, 36% of the vote26.8 pts → D
Rural207 counties, 14% of the vote21.3 pts → D

2024 president 2026 · Urban: 1,000 or more residents per square mile; suburban: 100 to 999; rural: under 100 (our grouping).

Census Bureau ACS 2019–2023 and 2023 Gazetteer; a county joins once its count is substantially in.

Texas’s ballot

All of Texas’s resultsThe state legislature

The seats that changed party

StatewideDemocrats won all 8 of Texas's statewide races.

  1. U.S. SenateThis raceJames TalaricoD+12.1Flip
  2. GovernorGina HinojosaD+7.1Flip
  3. Attorney GeneralNathan JohnsonD+6.4Flip
  4. Commissioner of AgricultureClayton TuckerD+4.7
  5. Comptroller of Public AccountsSarah EckhardtD+5.1
  6. Commissioner of the General Land OfficeBenjamin FloresD+4.5
  7. Lieutenant GovernorVikki GoodwinD+6.1
  8. Railroad CommissionerJon RosenthalD+7.0

U.S. HouseBefore the election R 25–13, now R 24–14

  1. R+38.1Moran
  2. R+2.0Toth
  3. R+5.5Self
  4. R+12.1Fallon
  5. R+2.9Gooden
  6. R+4.3Ellzey
  7. D+43.3Fletcher
  8. R+6.4Steinmann
  9. D+15.1Gutierrez
  10. R+7.5Gober
  11. R+19.0Pfluger
  12. R+6.2Goldman
  13. R+30.5Jackson
  14. R+8.0Weber
  15. D+24.6Pulido
  16. D+41.5Escobar
  17. R+7.1Sessions
  18. D+72.1Menefee
  19. R+39.0Sell
  20. D+55.2Castro
  21. R+9.0Teixeira
  22. R+3.6Nehls
  23. D+8.2Stout
  24. R+6.9Duyne
  25. R+7.5Williams
  26. R+10.4Gill
  27. R+2.3Cloud
  28. D+36.1Cuellar
  29. D+59.9Garcia
  30. D+65.3Haynes
  31. R+9.0Carter
  32. R+2.9Yarbrough
  33. D+57.1Allred
  34. D+16.0Gonzalez
  35. D+10.9Garcia
  36. R+7.1Babin
  37. D+67.5Casar
  38. R+4.2Bonck

won leads, still counting changed party. Margins are the leader’s share minus the runner-up’s, in points.

Every count on this page is the official count published by the Texas Secretary of State. Counts are unofficial until the state certifies them. The 2024 comparison is the presidential vote, Kamala Harris against Donald Trump, on the same ground. Margins are the Democrat minus the Republican, in points of all votes. Photos: James Talarico, by Antonioaesparza, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped, background removed; Ken Paxton, by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped, background removed.