Last updated: Oct 02, 2024

Texas

Memos

In Texas, election administration functions in a seemingly constant back-and-forth between urban election offices, state officials, and the state judiciary. Local officials in the state’s largest counties — Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, and Travis— have tested the limits of Republican state leaders through the expansion of progressive election policy, especially since the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

This report will explore the interactions between municipal and state administrators over the last four years, and what issues onlookers might expect to arise in the administration of the November 2024 election and its aftermath. Through an exploration of historical election data, election administration policy changes, and an evaluation of administration performance in recent elections, this report will address Texas’ election-related strengths and weaknesses as we inch closer to November.

Memo / August 01, 2024
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Texas Secretary of State

Data Visualizations

Voter Registrations

Last updated October 2, 2024

This scatterplot compares the number of registered voters in each county in Texas in 2020 to the number registered in that county in 2024. All of the changes are clustered lie very close to a line where y=x, so that no county stands out as having a major population change. However counties with large populations tended to see slight increases, and counties with small populations tended to see slight decreases.

This scatterplot compares the number of registered voters in each county in Texas in 2020 to the number registered in that county in 2024. All of the changes are clustered lie very close to a line where y=x, so that no county stands out as having a major population change. However counties with large populations tended to see slight increases, and counties with small populations tended to see slight decreases.

 

Last updated October 2, 2024

This map of Texas colours its counties by the amount that their population increased or decreased from the 2020 primary season to the 2024 primary season. Broadly, the Eastern half of the state, and particularly the large urban centers, have seen population increases, while populations have declined across the Western half of the state , especially northwest Texas and the panhandle.

This map of Texas colours its counties by the amount that their population increased or decreased from the 2020 primary season to the 2024 primary season. Broadly, the Eastern half of the state, and particularly the large urban centers, have seen population increases, while populations have declined across the Western half of the state , especially northwest Texas and the panhandle.