clay county
2024 president · trump won with 89.35% · R+79.5 · 5,918 votes
Clay 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 89.35% | R+79.5 | 5,918 | map | |
| 2024 U.S. senator | cruz won with 87.23% | R+75.9 | 5,879 | map | |
| 2022 governor | abbott won with 90.27% | R+81.5 | 4,489 | map | |
| 2022 lt. governor | patrick won with 88.77% | R+79.0 | 4,469 | map | |
| 2020 president | trump won with 88.13% | R+77.5 | 5,752 | map | |
| 2020 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 87.20% | R+76.1 | 5,686 | map | |
| 2018 U.S. senator | cruz won with 86.52% | R+73.8 | 4,288 | map | |
| 2018 governor | abbott won with 88.82% | R+78.3 | 4,286 | map | |
| 2018 lt. governor | patrick won with 82.06% | R+65.6 | 4,253 | map | |
| 2016 president | trump won with 87.02% | R+76.4 | 5,030 | map | |
| 2014 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 85.03% | R+73.6 | 2,793 | map | |
| 2014 governor | abbott won with 85.71% | R+72.9 | 2,842 | map | |
| 2014 lt. governor | patrick won with 85.56% | R+73.4 | 2,797 | map | |
| 2012 president | romney won with 84.38% | R+69.7 | 5,056 | map | |
| 2012 U.S. senator | cruz won with 78.68% | R+59.9 | 4,855 | map | |
| 2010 governor | perry won with 69.69% | R+42.4 | 3,454 | map | |
| 2010 lt. governor | dewhurst won with 78.87% | R+61.7 | 3,346 | map | |
| 2008 president | mccain won with 78.80% | R+58.5 | 5,348 | map | |
| 2008 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 75.19% | R+52.5 | 5,103 | map | |
| 2006 U.S. senator | hutchison won with 72.93% | R+45.9 | 3,432 | map | |
| 2006 governor | perry won with 43.47% | 16.8 points ahead of strayhorn | 3,520 | map | |
| 2006 lt. governor | dewhurst won with 69.54% | R+39.1 | 3,273 | map | |
| 2004 president | bush won with 75.33% | R+50.7 | 5,262 | map | |
| 2002 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 59.46% | R+18.9 | 3,249 | map | |
| 2002 governor | perry won with 68.88% | R+37.8 | 3,258 | map | |
| 2002 lt. governor | dewhurst won with 54.81% | R+9.6 | 3,246 | map | |
| 2000 president | bush won with 68.07% | R+36.1 | 4,572 | map | |
| 2000 U.S. senator | hutchison won with 71.68% | R+43.4 | 4,467 | map | |
| 1998 governor | bush won with 70.51% | R+41.0 | 3,048 | map | |
| 1998 lt. governor | perry won with 50.35% | R+0.7 | 2,991 | map | |
| 1996 president | dole won with 48.10% | R+7.4 | 4,152 | map | |
| 1996 U.S. senator | gramm won with 62.81% | R+25.6 | 3,990 | 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