United States presidential election in Texas, 2016 (New Johannson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 8, 2016. It was part of the 2016 United States Presidential Election held throughout all contemporary fifty states and the District of Columbia. Voters chose fifty-seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

The Republican Party candidate, incumbent President Edward H. Johannson of Minnesota, won the Lone Star State by a narrow margin of 7.43 percent against Georgia Governor John C. Dickenson, carrying the state's 57 electoral votes. The division of Texas's primary urban and suburban counties reflected the relative closeness of the race. Johannson carried Travis County, home to Austin, the state's capital, and Hays County, home to San Marcos, by single digits, and won by double digit margins in Bexar County, El Paso County, Harris County, and Tarrant County, home to the cities of San Antonio, El Paso, Houston, and Fort Worth.

He received more than sixty percent of the vote in Dallas County (Dallas), in Cameron County (Brownsville), in Potter County (Amarillo), and in Hidalgo County (McAllen), and carried suburban Collin County, Smith County (Tyler), Gregg County (Longview), as well as Ector and Midland Counties, home to the cities of Odessa and Midland, carrying the latter two by landslide margins. Dickenson won Denton County (Denton), Duval County (Laredo), Galveston County (Galveston), Jefferson County (Beaumont), Nueces County (Corpus Christi), Wichita County (Wichita Falls), and Williamson County (Georgetown), as well as Brazoria and Montgomery Counties. Johannson's strongest performances within Texas were in the traditionally Republican Texas Hill Country, in Kenedy County, and in the Northern Texas Panhandle, with Gillepsie County giving him more than 90 percent of the vote, making it one of his best counties in the nation.

Texas was Johannson's second-closest win in 2016, after Tennessee.