nueces county
2024 president · trump won with 55.23% · R+11.5 · 121,678 votes
Nueces 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 55.23% | R+11.5 | 121,678 | map | |
| 2024 U.S. senator | cruz won with 51.52% | R+5.5 | 120,459 | map | |
| 2022 governor | abbott won with 53.26% | R+7.9 | 89,305 | map | |
| 2022 lt. governor | patrick won with 52.56% | R+8.1 | 88,483 | map | |
| 2020 president | trump won with 50.66% | R+2.9 | 127,551 | map | |
| 2020 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 51.52% | R+5.9 | 125,299 | map | |
| 2018 U.S. senator | o’rourke won with 50.38% | D+1.5 | 94,067 | map | |
| 2018 governor | abbott won with 56.33% | R+14.0 | 93,950 | map | |
| 2018 lt. governor | patrick won with 49.03% | R+0.4 | 93,062 | map | |
| 2016 president | trump won with 48.62% | R+1.5 | 104,405 | map | |
| 2014 U.S. senator | cornyn won with 57.08% | R+19.0 | 55,758 | map | |
| 2014 governor | abbott won with 54.13% | R+10.7 | 57,005 | map | |
| 2014 lt. governor | patrick won with 51.23% | R+6.0 | 56,436 | map | |
| 2012 president | romney won with 50.96% | R+3.3 | 96,079 | map | |
| 2012 U.S. senator | cruz won with 50.95% | R+4.8 | 94,226 | map | |
| 2010 governor | perry won with 52.68% | R+7.6 | 61,872 | map | |
| 2010 lt. governor | dewhurst won with 56.79% | R+17.3 | 61,433 | map | |
| 2008 president | mccain won with 51.75% | R+4.4 | 101,230 | map | |
| 2008 U.S. senator | noriega won with 48.68% | D+0.1 | 99,210 | map | |
| 2006 U.S. senator | hutchison won with 60.91% | R+21.8 | 64,410 | map | |
| 2006 governor | perry won with 37.25% | R+6.1 | 67,295 | map | |
| 2006 lt. governor | dewhurst won with 55.38% | R+10.8 | 63,866 | map | |
| 2004 president | bush won with 57.19% | R+14.4 | 103,798 | map | |
| 2002 U.S. senator | kirk won with 56.48% | D+13.0 | 67,607 | map | |
| 2002 governor | sanchez won with 50.63% | D+1.3 | 67,153 | map | |
| 2002 lt. governor | sharp won with 55.21% | D+10.4 | 66,580 | map | |
| 2000 president | bush won with 52.39% | R+4.8 | 95,255 | map | |
| 2000 U.S. senator | hutchison won with 59.92% | R+19.8 | 93,328 | map | |
| 1998 governor | bush won with 61.11% | R+22.2 | 62,455 | map | |
| 1998 lt. governor | sharp won with 58.46% | D+16.9 | 60,459 | map | |
| 1996 president | clinton won with 54.02% | D+13.5 | 92,582 | map | |
| 1996 U.S. senator | morales won with 53.29% | D+6.6 | 91,363 | 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