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1876–2024
Brooks County, Texas
Brooks County·Texas

Brooks County has voted Democratic for as long as anyone can remember.

A small South Texas county where Hispanic heritage shapes every ballot

18762024·38 elections
Brooks County, Texas · 25or6to4 · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
D+10
in 2024
Archetype
Democratic loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
6,943
2024 ACS
Most similar
Jim Hogg County
TX · similarity 0.99
5 precincts · 2,402 votes cast
Harris · D+10
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024D
+9.6%
1,3081,0772,402
2020D
+19.0%
1,4709982,484
2016D
+51.0%
1,9376132,596
2012D
+57.4%
1,8865072,403
2008D
+51.6%
1,7475562,309
2004D
+36.6%
1,8238452,674
2000D
+53.4%
1,8545562,431
1996D
+72.6%
2,9454133,488
1992D
+60.3%
2,8565853,765
1988D
+64.5%
2,8596083,489
1984D
+50.0%
2,7028963,614
1980D
+51.2%
2,4887803,333
1976D
+62.4%
2,7826413,429
1972D
+19.4%
1,6571,1172,781
1968D
+52.6%
1,9045342,604
1964D
+70.2%
2,2994022,703
1960D
+54.4%
1,9345672,511
1956D
+15.9%
1,1088021,920
1952D
+32.2%
1,5778092,387
1948D
+63.3%
1,0292171,282
1944D
+41.1%
403142635
1940D
+53.6%
670201875
1936D
+51.3%
365117483
1932D
+74.9%
60886697
1928D
+35.0%
332160492
1924D
+54.5%
20559268
1920D
+54.9%
12737164
1916D
+22.8%
10163167
1912D
+66.7%
40213583
1908
No data
1904
No data
1900
No data
1896
No data
1892
No data
1888
No data
1884
No data
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Catholic & Orthodox
60.9%
Other Christian
5.4%
Baptist
2.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.3%
Methodist
1.3%
Mainline Protestant
0.4%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 28.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Brooks County, anchored by Falfurrias, is over 95% Hispanic and sits squarely in the brush country of the Rio Grande Plain — a demographic profile that has long produced Democratic margins, though the party's advantage here narrowed noticeably between 2016 and 2024.

The Democratic margin in Brooks County reached its widest at seventy-five points in 1932. The margin in 2024 was ten points — still decisive.

Brooks County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $47,764, a 24% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 6,943 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Jim Hogg County and Dimmit County.