sources

where each number comes from

election returns · Texas Legislative Council: the VTD returns of 1996 to 2010, filed on the 2012 lines, and the Council’s 2012 to 2024 archive.

third-party totals, 1996 to 2004 · Texas Secretary of State, canvass.

the 2025 and 2026 contests · each names its own source in its footnote, among them the counties’ own precinct reports.

the census · U.S. Census Bureau, P.L. 94-171 and ACS 5-year.

places, roads and ZIP codes · U.S. Census Bureau, TIGER 2024 and the 2024 ZCTA gazetteer. rivers and lakes · Natural Earth.

the forecasts · theoelections’ own projection of Texas and forecast of the country.

the U.S. maps · the states from us-atlas; the house district map is Wikipedia’s 2026 map (Wikimedia Commons, CC0).

the typeface · Commissioner, under the SIL Open Font License.