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1876–2024
Glasscock County, Texas
Glasscock County·Texas

Glasscock County changed its political identity.

One of the nation's most lopsided presidential counties in 2024

18762024·38 elections
Glasscock County, Texas · Aualliso · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+88
in 2024
Archetype
Realigner
since the recent cycles
Population
1,068
2024 ACS
Most similar
Stevens County
KS · similarity 1.00
4 precincts · 663 votes cast
Trump · R+88
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−88.2%
38623663
2020R
−87.6%
39611653
2016R
−85.9%
34553604
2012R
−83.4%
44526578
2008R
−80.8%
52502557
2004R
−83.3%
44488533
2000R
−85.6%
39528571
1996R
−64.5%
70382484
1992R
−48.6%
100379574
1988R
−45.6%
143384528
1984R
−51.3%
128403536
1980R
−56.1%
116416535
1976R
−6.8%
190218413
1972R
−57.7%
75288369
1968R
−14.1%
106169447
1964R
−1.1%
179183363
1960D
+15.0%
207152366
1956R
−12.6%
174224398
1952R
−8.8%
197235432
1948D
+42.8%
18869278
1944D
+56.1%
18534269
1940D
+73.0%
26841311
1936D
+78.8%
25229283
1932D
+66.9%
21242254
1928R
−57.0%
34124158
1924D
+68.8%
8914109
1920D
+56.4%
9125117
1916D
+81.5%
968108
1912D
+88.2%
60068
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%
French
1.3%
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
65.3%
Other Christian
3.9%
Baptist
3.3%
Methodist
3.3%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 24.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

This sparsely populated Permian Basin county recorded an 88-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, making it an extreme outlier even within reliably red West Texas. Its roughly 1,400 residents are spread across an oil-and-ranching landscape with no incorporated towns.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Glasscock County peaked at eighty-eight points in 1912; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 1964 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of one points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Glasscock County's median household income of $101,250 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Stevens County and Wallace County.