jim wells county
2024 president · trump won with 57.55% · R+15.5 · 13,268 votes
Jim Wells 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 57.55% | R+15.5 | 13,268 | map | |
| 2024 U.S. senator | cruz won with 52.26% | R+6.8 | 12,960 | map | |
| 2022 governor | abbott won with 53.05% | R+7.2 | 9,543 | map | |
| 2022 lt. governor | patrick won with 50.99% | R+3.8 | 9,257 | map | |
| 2020 president | trump won with 54.47% | R+9.8 | 13,682 | map | |
| 2020 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 52.47% | R+7.0 | 13,260 | map | |
| 2018 U.S. senator | o’rourke won with 53.85% | D+8.2 | 9,900 | map | |
| 2018 governor | abbott won with 52.02% | R+4.8 | 9,781 | map | |
| 2018 lt. governor | collier won with 53.63% | D+8.7 | 9,595 | map | |
| 2016 president | clinton won with 54.15% | D+10.3 | 12,351 | map | |
| 2014 U.S. senator | alameel won with 50.53% | D+5.1 | 5,466 | map | |
| 2014 governor | davis won with 52.81% | D+7.5 | 5,711 | map | |
| 2014 lt. governor | van de putte won with 55.01% | D+12.2 | 5,606 | map | |
| 2012 president | obama won with 58.14% | D+17.0 | 11,166 | map | |
| 2012 U.S. senator | sadler won with 55.11% | D+12.1 | 10,876 | map | |
| 2010 governor | white won with 57.22% | D+15.8 | 6,421 | map | |
| 2010 lt. governor | chavez-thompson won with 54.09% | D+10.9 | 6,393 | map | |
| 2008 president | obama won with 57.77% | D+16.1 | 11,608 | map | |
| 2008 U.S. senator | noriega won with 61.36% | D+25.0 | 11,324 | map | |
| 2006 U.S. senator | radnofsky won with 59.19% | D+18.4 | 7,194 | map | |
| 2006 governor | bell won with 49.37% | D+21.1 | 7,504 | map | |
| 2006 lt. governor | alvarado won with 63.56% | D+27.1 | 7,273 | map | |
| 2004 president | kerry won with 54.02% | D+8.0 | 12,632 | map | |
| 2002 U.S. senator | kirk won with 72.29% | D+44.6 | 8,593 | map | |
| 2002 governor | sanchez won with 69.04% | D+38.1 | 8,906 | map | |
| 2002 lt. governor | sharp won with 72.32% | D+44.6 | 8,697 | map | |
| 2000 president | gore won with 62.25% | D+24.5 | 11,916 | map | |
| 2000 U.S. senator | kelly won with 57.39% | D+14.8 | 11,533 | map | |
| 1998 governor | mauro won with 56.79% | D+13.6 | 6,844 | map | |
| 1998 lt. governor | sharp won with 70.99% | D+42.0 | 6,671 | map | |
| 1996 president | clinton won with 67.55% | D+39.2 | 10,535 | map | |
| 1996 U.S. senator | morales won with 66.84% | D+33.7 | 10,388 | 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