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1876–2024
Live Oak County, Texas
Live Oak County·Texas

Live Oak County was solidly one party for decades. In the last twenty years, it flipped.

One of Texas's most lopsided presidential margins in 2024

18762024·38 elections
Live Oak County, Texas · Larry D. Moore · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+70
in 2024
Archetype
Populist
since the recent cycles
Population
11,620
2024 ACS
Most similar
Jackson County
TX · similarity 1.00
14 precincts · 5,093 votes cast
Trump · R+70
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−69.6%
7614,3075,093
2020R
−66.9%
8194,1995,055
2016R
−63.3%
7423,4644,302
2012R
−54.3%
9193,1544,113
2008R
−49.0%
1,0483,0954,176
2004R
−50.2%
1,0363,1474,201
2000R
−42.8%
1,1142,8284,004
1996R
−15.4%
1,3721,9293,612
1992R
−11.6%
1,3451,8053,965
1988R
−18.1%
1,5732,2773,880
1984R
−32.5%
1,2602,4813,759
1980R
−22.5%
1,3802,1933,618
1976D
+12.5%
1,6561,2872,961
1972R
−48.1%
6101,7452,359
1968R
−0.7%
9229382,344
1964D
+28.2%
1,4237952,226
1960R
−15.3%
7701,0481,822
1956R
−33.9%
5211,0771,639
1952R
−42.9%
5731,4432,026
1948D
+29.7%
9454791,567
1944D
+6.7%
6425481,405
1940D
+28.0%
8884991,390
1936D
+56.2%
8742311,145
1932D
+80.2%
1,0701141,192
1928R
−11.6%
383484867
1924D
+23.3%
5963531,042
1920D
+14.7%
234161496
1916D
+48.4%
397119574
1912D
+69.3%
30826407
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%
African American
1.8%
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
26.1%
Baptist
18.6%
Other Christian
8.4%
Methodist
3.7%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.1%
Mainline Protestant
0.5%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 41.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Live Oak County, a rural stretch of ranchland south of San Antonio, delivered nearly 85% of its presidential vote to the Republican column in 2024, placing it among the state's most one-sided counties by margin.

The Democratic margin in Live Oak County peaked at eighty points in 1932. By 1980 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was seventy points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Live Oak County's median household income of $57,150 sits well below state and national norms, and 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The shift here is part of a broader realignment of working-class places across the country. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Jackson County and Howard County.