matagorda county
2024 president · trump won with 74.80% · R+50.5 · 13,312 votes
Matagorda 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 74.80% | R+50.5 | 13,312 | map | |
| 2024 U.S. senator | cruz won with 71.78% | R+45.4 | 13,209 | map | |
| 2022 governor | abbott won with 75.59% | R+52.2 | 9,724 | map | |
| 2022 lt. governor | patrick won with 74.27% | R+50.6 | 9,668 | map | |
| 2020 president | trump won with 71.72% | R+44.5 | 13,727 | map | |
| 2020 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 71.55% | R+45.2 | 13,482 | map | |
| 2018 U.S. senator | cruz won with 70.13% | R+41.0 | 10,446 | map | |
| 2018 governor | abbott won with 73.52% | R+48.0 | 10,471 | map | |
| 2018 lt. governor | patrick won with 68.92% | R+39.6 | 10,434 | map | |
| 2016 president | trump won with 68.77% | R+40.0 | 12,165 | map | |
| 2014 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 69.91% | R+43.9 | 6,895 | map | |
| 2014 governor | abbott won with 67.42% | R+37.0 | 6,958 | map | |
| 2014 lt. governor | patrick won with 67.23% | R+37.7 | 6,922 | map | |
| 2012 president | romney won with 66.27% | R+33.5 | 12,132 | map | |
| 2012 U.S. senator | cruz won with 63.75% | R+29.9 | 11,811 | map | |
| 2010 governor | perry won with 57.24% | R+17.2 | 8,600 | map | |
| 2010 lt. governor | dewhurst won with 67.00% | R+37.0 | 8,437 | map | |
| 2008 president | mccain won with 63.32% | R+27.4 | 12,373 | map | |
| 2008 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 59.01% | R+20.4 | 12,104 | map | |
| 2006 U.S. senator | hutchison won with 65.73% | R+31.5 | 7,551 | map | |
| 2006 governor | perry won with 33.75% | R+7.1 | 7,814 | map | |
| 2006 lt. governor | dewhurst won with 63.16% | R+26.3 | 7,212 | map | |
| 2004 president | bush won with 65.09% | R+30.2 | 12,474 | map | |
| 2002 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 57.95% | R+15.9 | 8,149 | map | |
| 2002 governor | perry won with 59.91% | R+19.8 | 8,254 | map | |
| 2002 lt. governor | sharp won with 52.11% | D+4.2 | 8,231 | map | |
| 2000 president | bush won with 61.76% | R+23.5 | 12,280 | map | |
| 2000 U.S. senator | hutchison won with 66.95% | R+33.9 | 12,002 | map | |
| 1998 governor | bush won with 70.33% | R+40.7 | 9,062 | map | |
| 1998 lt. governor | sharp won with 59.73% | D+19.5 | 8,786 | map | |
| 1996 president | dole won with 47.23% | R+4.0 | 12,440 | map | |
| 1996 U.S. senator | gramm won with 55.96% | R+11.9 | 12,195 | 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