Until the election of 1948, Texas ballots did not list the presidential candidates by name but instead listed the electors for each party. Since the individual electors’ vote totals varied slightly, given here is the highest vote received by any elector for a candidate.
Abbreviations: Rep., Republican; Dem., Democrat; Lib., Libertarian; UST, U.S. Taxpayers; NLP, Natural Law Party; Am., American; Soc., Socialist; Soc. W., Socialist Workers; Con., Conservative; Consti., Constitution; Proh., Prohibitionist; Chr. Nat., Christian National; Prog., Progressive; States R., States Rights; Am. First, America First; Com., Communist; Soc. Lab., Socialist Labor; Pop., Populist; Ind. League, Independent League; Nat. Dem., National Democrat; Un. Lab., Union Labor; Lab.-Ref., Labor-Reform; Consti. Union, Constitutional Union; Ind., Independent; W-I, write-in.
An asterisk (*) designates the winner of the national election.
In the 1860 vote that elected Abraham Lincoln president, electors for neither Lincoln nor Stephen Douglas were on the Texas ballot.
Texas did not take part in the 1864 and 1868 elections because of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
1896
| William J. Bryan | Dem. | 284,298 | 53.98 % |
| William J. Bryan | Pop. | 76,926 | 14.61 % |
| William McKinley* | Rep. | 158,894 | 30.17 % |
| John McA. Palmer | Nat. Dem. | 4,853 | 0.92 % |
| Joshua Levering | Proh. | 1,722 | 0.33 % |
| Total vote | 526,693 |
1892
| Grover Cleveland* | Dem. | 239,148 | 56.61 % |
| James B. Weaver | Pop. | 99,688 | 23.60 % |
| Benjamin Harrison | Rep. | 77,478 | 18.34 % |
| John Bidwell | Proh. | 2,165 | 0.51 % |
| Others | 3,968 | ||
| Total vote | 422,477 |
1888
| Grover Cleveland | Dem. | 234,883 | 65.70 % |
| Benjamin Harrison* | Rep. | 88,422 | 24.73 % |
| Alson J. Streeter | Un. Lab. | 29,459 | 8.24 % |
| Clinton B. Fisk | Proh. | 4,749 | 1.33 % |
| Total vote | 357,513 |
1884
| Grover Cleveland* | Dem. | 225,309 | 69.26 % |
| James G. Blaine | Rep. | 93,141 | 28.63 % |
| John P. St. John | Proh. | 3,534 | 1.09 % |
| Benjamin F. Butler | Greenback | 3,321 | 1.02 % |
| Total vote | 325,305 |
1880
| Winfield S. Hancock | Dem. | 156,428 | 64.71 % |
| James A. Garfield* | Rep. | 57,893 | 23.95 % |
| James B. Weaver | Greenback | 27,405 | 11.34 % |
| Total vote | 241,726 |
1876
| Samuel J. Tilden | Dem. | 104,755 | 70.04 % |
| Rutherford B. Hayes* | Rep. | 44,800 | 29.96 % |
| Total vote | 149,555 |
1872
| Horace Greeley | Dem. | 66,435 | 57.05 % |
| Ulysses S. Grant* | Rep. | 47,426 | 40.73 % |
| Charles O'Connor | Lab.-Ref. | 2,580 | 2.22 % |
| Total vote | 116,441 |
CIVIL WAR and RECONSTRUCTION
1860
| John Breckinridge | Dem. | 47,887 | 75.51 % |
| John Bell | Consti. Union | 15,527 | 24.49 % |
| Total vote | 63,414 |
1856
| James C. Buchanan* | Dem. | 32,460 | 67.72 % |
| Millard Fillmore | Whig | 15,472 | 32.28 % |
| Total vote | 47,932 |
1852
| Franklin Pierce* | Dem. | 11,519 | 73.34 % |
| Winfield Scott | Whig | 4,187 | 26.66 % |
| Total vote | 15,706 |
1848
| Lewis Cass | Dem. | 8,801 | 69.97 % |
| Zachary Taylor* | Whig | 3,777 | 30.03 % |
| Total vote | 12,578 |
