AUSTIN (KXAN) — Former President Donald Trump is heading back to the White House after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s presidential election.
In Texas, Trump received more than 6.3 million votes — more than any other candidate in presidential election history. His vote total was almost 500,000 more than he received in 2020.
Harris received 4.8 million votes, about 450,000 fewer than Joe Biden received in 2020.
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Trump won the most votes in 242 of Texas' 254 counties. Harris only won 12 counties, down from the 22 that Biden won in 2020.
Harris won the major population centers of Harris, Dallas, Bexar and Travis counties, but Trump was able to flip Tarrant and Williamson counties, along with several counties along Texas' southern border.
Trump netted the most votes from Montgomery County, north of Houston, where his margin of victory was almost 140,000 votes. He also won Parker, Denton and Collin counties, all suburban counties in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, by more than 50,000 votes each.
Harris, meanwhile, saw a huge margin in Travis County, winning more than 225,000 votes more than Trump there, but that margin was reduced from about 275,000 in the 2020 presidential election.
Democratic margins were also reduced in Texas' other largest cities, down from 291,000 to 184,000 in Dallas County, from 218,000 to 82,000 in Harris County, from 140,000 to 73,000 in Bexar County and from 94,000 to 38,000 in El Paso County.
The final margin statewide was more than 1.5 million votes, up from just 631,000 votes in 2020. Trump's margin of 13.83 percentage points was the largest presidential margin of victory in Texas since the 2012 election.
Almost every county in Texas swung toward Trump compared to the 2020 election. Statewide, 234 counties moved in Trump's direction, while only 20 swung to the left.
The largest swings were in Texas' border counties. Maverick, Webb, Dimmit, Starr, El Paso and Hidalgo counties all swung more than 20 points to the right. Another 17 counties shifted rightward by more than 10 points.
Only two counties moved in the Democrats' favor by more than 5 points. Loving County, the least-populated county in the state, swung toward Harris by 7.8 points, while Kaufman County, a suburban Dallas county that is the fastest-growing in the nation, swung left by 6 points.
