Texas 8th Congressional District, Texas: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+24%. Democratic peak: D+79 in 1936.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+24MIT Election Lab
- Political archetype
- Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
- Population
- 1,198,0982024 5-year
- Median household income
- $82,2622024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 50.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 35.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+79 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+29 in 1972MIT Election Lab
Constituent county margins for Congressional District 8, TXOne cell per constituent county, colored by 2024 presidential margin from deep red (Republican) through neutral to deep blue (Democratic), ordered bluest first.
R+60D+60
One cell per constituent county. Ordered by 2024 D-vs-R margin (bluest first). Hover for county-level numbers.
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 169,999 | 278,655 | 454,414 | ||
| R | 179,745 | 254,865 | 440,575 | ||
| R | 131,174 | 199,547 | 345,856 | ||
| R | 107,958 | 194,170 | 306,313 | ||
| R | 113,101 | 178,756 | 294,164 | ||
| R | 92,924 | 169,582 | 264,136 | ||
| R | 81,642 | 142,472 | 229,881 | ||
| R | 75,590 | 100,967 | 189,830 | ||
| R | 70,164 | 90,025 | 202,044 | ||
| R | 68,026 | 99,091 | 168,507 | ||
| R | 60,316 | 109,772 | 170,522 | ||
| R | 52,507 | 79,356 | 136,795 | ||
| R | 59,766 | 62,527 | 123,304 | ||
| R | 34,891 | 63,898 | 99,220 | ||
| R | 30,412 | 31,315 | 79,186 | ||
| D | 38,226 | 24,325 | 62,690 | ||
| R | 25,476 | 26,458 | 53,246 | ||
| R | 16,648 | 25,460 | 42,833 | ||
| R | 20,365 | 23,727 | 44,134 | ||
| D | 11,292 | 6,611 | 22,207 | ||
| D | 14,152 | 1,949 | 19,715 | ||
| D | 16,037 | 3,459 | 19,514 | ||
| D | 12,176 | 1,409 | 13,625 | ||
| D | 11,062 | 1,360 | 12,495 | ||
| D | 5,192 | 4,937 | 10,145 | ||
| D | 6,810 | 1,729 | 8,971 | ||
| D | 3,987 | 1,561 | 7,366 | ||
| D | 3,563 | 1,008 | 4,858 | ||
| D | 2,481 | 518 | 3,657 | ||
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Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
German
8.5%
English
8.4%
Irish
6.0%
American
4.5%
Italian
2.4%
French
2.2%
Scottish
1.0%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 36.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Median household income
2024 inflation-adjusted dollars
$82,262
Congressional District 8 ranks near the middle of US counties.
Congressional District 8$82,262
Texas$78,476
United States$80,734
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
13.8%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1819.2%
Working age (18–64)11.9%
Seniors (65+)12.3%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
65.3%
speak English only
Spanish27.4%
Asian & Pacific Islander3.2%
Other Indo-European2.8%
Other languages1.2%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 46.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Texas 8th Congressional District sits in the Gulf South and Southern Plains. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the long memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in Texas 8th Congressional District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.
The shift began with civil rights. 1968 marked the realignment in Texas 8th Congressional District, by a one points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at twenty-nine points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-four points.
The political shift has tracked, in Texas 8th Congressional District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 50% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $82,262, and a 14% poverty rate describe the demographic context.
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Congressional District 8, Texas — The Long Memory. Akashic Intelligence — The Long Memory. https://tiers.akashic.app/cd/4808/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Congressional District 8, Texas vote in 2024?
In 2024, Congressional District 8, Texas voted Republican by 23.9 points (R+24), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 454,414 votes cast, 169,999 went Democratic and 278,655 went Republican.
What is Congressional District 8, Texas's political archetype?
Akashic classifies Congressional District 8, Texas as a "Old Confederacy" district based on its long-arc presidential voting pattern. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the district has voted Democratic 11 times, Republican 18 times, and other 0 times.
When did Congressional District 8, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Congressional District 8, Texas voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Congressional District 8, Texas?
Congressional District 8, Texas has a population of 1,198,098 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Congressional District 8, Texas?
Median household income in Congressional District 8, Texas is $82,262 — above the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Congressional District 8, Texas?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Congressional District 8, Texas from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 18 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.