Is Texas, Red, Blue or Purple? [View all]
Total Registered Voters: 17,485,702
Democrats: 8,133,683 (46.52%)
Republicans: 6,601,189 (37.75%)
Unaffiliated: 2,750,830 (15.73%)
Texas is an open partisan primary state, which means it does not have to register voters by party affiliation. When voters go to the polls in the primary, they can freely choose between a Republican and a Democratic ballot.
What many Texans don’t know is when they vote in a party’s primary, their party choice is recorded in their voter file.
In other words, while they may not register with a party, the state treats them as a registered Republican or a registered Democrat or an independent voter depending on how they vote in taxpayer-funded elections.
https://ivn.us/posts/are-there-more-democrats-texas-republicans-2025-08-08
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