With majority control of the United States Senate at stake in this election, eyes have been glued to the race in Texas between the incumbent Senator. Ted Cruz and Rep. Colin Allred.

Democrats believe they believe they can win the race despite no democrat is elected to state office since 1994.

Polls show the two very close just days before the election, but how did North Texas vote in previous Senate elections?

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

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

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

Beto O’Rourke won Tarrant County in 2018 by a slim margin of 0.69 percent. He also won Dallas County by 33 percent. O’Rouke’s 45.5 percent in Denton County and 46.5 percent in Collin County were the best results by a Democrat since 2012.

That year he would lose the election by less than three percentage points to Ted Cruz.

2014 was the largest margin of victory by a Republican when Cornyn defeated David Alameel with 61.56 percent of the statewide vote. Cornyn won by 40 points in Denton and Collin counties, while leading Tarrant County by 24 points and was three points shy of victory in Dallas County.

The 2012 election also saw big victories in Denton and Collin counties for Cruz, who took 64 percent of the vote and won the counties by 32 points over Paul Sadler.

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

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

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Early voting is underway through Friday for the 2024 general election.

Election day is Tuesday.