ELECTIONS and POLITICS

Historical Elections

• Presidential Elections and Primaries, 1848 – 2004
• Gubernatorial Elections and Primaries, 1845 – 2006
• Senatorial Elections and Primaries, 1906 – 2006
• Referendum on secession 1861, with map

Congressional Districts for the 2004 elections.

Congressional Districts for the 2006 elections.

Congressional Redistricting

Democrats lost their last claim to power in the state — a majority in the Texas congressional delegation — after the Legislature produced an extraordinary redistricting re-do in 2003.

The remap had wide reverberations, from Washington to Austin and back to Washington. The impact brought to mind the Energizer bunny: It just kept going and going. For starters, the redistricting drastically changed the partisan makeup of the Texas congressional delegation. Whereas Texas voters sent 17 Democrats and 15 Republicans to Washington in 2002 using federal court-drawn districts, in the 2004 elections the count was 21 Republicans and 11 Democrats under the Legislature's remap....(for more, click).

In the Texas Almanac 2008 – 2009

• A report on the Legislative Session 2007.

• Voting returns from the General Election 2006 for statewide races.

• Voting returns by county in the 2006 race for governor.

• Results of the Texas primaries 2006.

• List of Democratic and Republican state party officials.