Texas voted overwhelmingly in favor donald trump on Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential elections.

Unofficial results show Trump received 56% of the state’s votes compared to Harris’ 42% to win the state for the third consecutive election.

Trump’s victory in 2024 is the largest. In 2020, he won Texas with 52% of the vote to Joe Biden’s 46% and in 2016, Trump won the state with 52.6% of the vote to Hillary Clinton’s 43%.

In central Texas, Trump recaptured Williamson County and gained ground in Hays and Travis counties.

Travis County

Harris won Travis County with 68.62% of the vote.

Still, Trump was able to gain some ground in the Democratic stronghold county, earning three percent more votes compared to his 2020 result. It was the president-elect’s best showing in the county despite a smaller margin of victory for Clinton in 2016.

Williamson County

In Williamson County, Trump was able to take the county back from the Democrats after Biden was able to flip the county in 2020.

Trump improved his performance by two percent, collecting just over half of the vote to win the county by three percent after losing by just over one percent in 2020.

Trump carried Williamson County by about 10 points in 2016.

As of 2020, Republican presidential candidates had won Williamson County as far back as the 1992 presidential election.

Hays County

Trump also made up ground in Hays County, where he lost to Joe Biden by 10 points in 2020.

He narrowed the margin to just over five percent against Harris.

In 2016, Trump won Hays County by less than one percent.

Statewide voter shifts

No change in voting patterns in Texas has been more drastic than that along the state’s southern border. Almost all of the southern tip of the state went to Clinton in 2016.

However, in 2020, the shift toward Republican victories was underway.

Trump won Zapata, Frio, Jim Wells, Val Verde, La Salle, Reeves and Kenedy counties in 2020, all changes from 2016.

The 2020 election showed massive movement in other counties that, while still Democratic wins, tilted toward Trump.

Zavala, Dimmit, Webb, Brooks, Jim Hogg, Hidalgo, Cameron, Willacy, Maverick, Starr and Duval counties remained Democratic victories for Biden in 2020.

READ MORE: How Trump won the Latino vote despite insults and threats of mass deportation

In 2024, only Jim Hogg, Dimmit, Brooks and Zavala remained Democratic-leaning counties.

Trump’s victory in Starr County on election night was historic because no Republican had won the county since 1896.