bell county
2024 president · trump won with 57.37% · R+16.2 · 131,013 votes
Bell County in every statewide general election from 1996 to 2024: president, U.S. senator, governor and lieutenant governor. each line is the county’s own return; “map” opens it on the map, and the county by precinct shows where its votes came from.
| election | result | margin | votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 president | trump won with 57.37% | R+16.2 | 131,013 | map | |
| 2024 U.S. senator | cruz won with 54.48% | R+11.6 | 129,340 | map | |
| 2022 governor | abbott won with 58.97% | R+19.4 | 87,994 | map | |
| 2022 lt. governor | patrick won with 58.07% | R+19.3 | 87,104 | map | |
| 2020 president | trump won with 53.17% | R+8.5 | 127,690 | map | |
| 2020 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 54.36% | R+11.5 | 126,799 | map | |
| 2018 U.S. senator | cruz won with 54.79% | R+10.4 | 86,577 | map | |
| 2018 governor | abbott won with 59.21% | R+20.1 | 86,398 | map | |
| 2018 lt. governor | patrick won with 55.33% | R+13.1 | 86,101 | map | |
| 2016 president | trump won with 54.33% | R+14.8 | 95,701 | map | |
| 2014 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 66.16% | R+36.0 | 43,591 | map | |
| 2014 governor | abbott won with 65.43% | R+32.7 | 43,983 | map | |
| 2014 lt. governor | patrick won with 65.40% | R+33.7 | 43,726 | map | |
| 2012 president | romney won with 57.53% | R+16.3 | 86,174 | map | |
| 2012 U.S. senator | cruz won with 57.71% | R+18.3 | 84,756 | map | |
| 2010 governor | perry won with 56.62% | R+19.7 | 46,478 | map | |
| 2010 lt. governor | dewhurst won with 65.22% | R+34.0 | 46,394 | map | |
| 2008 president | mccain won with 54.36% | R+9.7 | 90,590 | map | |
| 2008 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 56.73% | R+16.1 | 88,348 | map | |
| 2006 U.S. senator | hutchison won with 67.46% | R+34.9 | 42,136 | map | |
| 2006 governor | perry won with 40.97% | 16.1 points ahead of strayhorn | 43,019 | map | |
| 2006 lt. governor | dewhurst won with 65.19% | R+30.4 | 41,084 | map | |
| 2004 president | bush won with 65.74% | R+31.5 | 79,300 | map | |
| 2002 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 60.20% | R+20.4 | 42,741 | map | |
| 2002 governor | perry won with 64.20% | R+28.4 | 42,758 | map | |
| 2002 lt. governor | dewhurst won with 59.35% | R+18.7 | 42,298 | map | |
| 2000 president | bush won with 66.23% | R+32.5 | 62,219 | map | |
| 2000 U.S. senator | hutchison won with 70.65% | R+41.3 | 60,116 | map | |
| 1998 governor | bush won with 73.34% | R+46.7 | 33,059 | map | |
| 1998 lt. governor | perry won with 54.35% | R+8.7 | 32,400 | map | |
| 1996 president | dole won with 53.57% | R+13.6 | 56,652 | map | |
| 1996 U.S. senator | gramm won with 61.41% | R+22.8 | 54,919 | map |
- each line is the county’s own return, the exact sum of its precincts.
- the Council’s precinct files for 1996 to 2004 carry few or no third-party candidates; from 2006 they carry all of them. each election’s page gives the Secretary of State’s statewide count.
- data · Texas Legislative Council