How North Texas Voted in Past Senate Elections

With majority control of the United States Senate in play this election, eyes are on the race in Texas between the incumbent senator. Ted Cruz and Rep. Colin Allred.

Democrats have seen the race as one they believe they can win regardless no Democrat is elected to statewide office since 1994.

Polls show the two are neck and neck just days before the election, but how has North Texas voted in previous Senate elections?

Since 2012, Democrats have only reliably won Dallas County. Since 2012, a Democratic candidate has won only once in Tarrant, Denton or Collin County.

In 2020, John Cornyn won re-election to the Senate over Mary Hegar by nearly 10 points, 53.51-43.87.

Hegar managed to collect 61 percent of the vote in Dallas County that year, but Cornyn won 5 percent, 15 percent and 11 percent of Tarrant, Denton and Collin counties, respectively.

Beto O’Rourke won Tarrant County in 2018 by a razor-thin 0.69 percent. He also won in Dallas County with 33 percent. O’Rouke’s 45.5 percent in Denton County and 46.5 percent in Collin County were the best performances by a Democrat since 2012.

He would lose the election that year to Ted Cruz by less than three percentage points.

2014 marked the largest margin of victory for a Republican when Cornyn defeated David Alameel with 61.56 percent of the vote statewide. Cornyn won by 40 points in Denton and Collin counties, while in Tarrant County she led by 24 points and came within three points of winning in Dallas County.

The 2012 election also saw huge victories in Denton and Collin counties for Cruz, who collected 64 percent of the vote and gave the counties a 32-point lead over Paul Sadler.

Cruz won with 56 percent of the vote in Tarrant County, compared to Sadler’s 40 percent.

Sadler would win Dallas County by 14 points, collecting nearly 56 percent of the vote.

FILE – Photo of I Voted stickers stacked on top of each other. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Early voting continues through Friday for the 2024 general election.

Election day is Tuesday.