Biden made big strides in Tarrant in 2020. Trump undid them. These precincts flipped
President Joe Biden defeated former president Donald Trump in Tarrant County by the slimmest of margins in 2020, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the hearts of a plurality of Tarrant voters since Lyndon B. Johnson.
Trump rebounded this cycle, handily beating Biden’s chosen successor, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump comfortably carried Tarrant during his first presidential run in 2016, securing 51.74% of the vote to Hillary Clinton’s 43.14%. Biden flipped the script four years later, winning the once reliably-red county by a mere 1,826 votes (0.22% of the electorate).
Harris failed to repeat the feat of her boss. Trump beat Harris by almost 42,627 votes in Tarrant, according to unofficial tallies last updated early Wednesday morning.
Precinct-by-precinct voting patterns across the county remained largely consistent over the past two election cycles. A few blotches of blue turned red in different corners of Fort Worth suburbia. Harris ceded contested pockets of Bedford and Euless, small pieces of the Alliance corridor, some neighborhoods in west Fort Worth and small chunks of Arlington — places where Biden had squeezed out narrow victories in 2020.
- At least seven precincts in Bedford and Euless that went Biden’s way in 2020 flipped to Trump in 2024. Biden bested Trump by 410 votes in the switched precincts; Harris lost them by 561 votes. A fewer hundred fewer eligible voters cast their ballots in these areas.
- Three precincts straddling the intersection of U.S. 287 and Interstate 35W in far north Fort Worth ditched the Democratic nominee for president in 2024. Biden carried areas encompassing Basswood Village, West Fork Ranch and Alliance Town Center by 96 votes in 2020; Harris lost the same precincts by 422 votes this year.
- 110 votes tipped the Bomber Heights neighborhood in Biden’s favor in 2020; Harris lost the same area by 47 votes four years later. Harris did pick up the Burton Hill Trinity Trails, a neighborhood about five miles northeast that Biden had lost by 12 votes.
- Trump flipped two neighborhoods in southern Arlington — one bordering the southern edge of the city’s namesake lake and another squeezed between West Mayfield Road and I-20. Biden won both by a several dozen votes. Harris lost both by a similar margin.
Voter Turnout
Almost 839,000 Tarrant County residents (70.75% of eligible voters) cast ballots in the 2020 election. A substantially smaller portion of registered voters went to the polls this time around: according to unofficial tallies — not yet accounting for mail-in ballots — 63.59% of eligible Tarrant voters participated in the election. Overall, roughly 13,000 fewer votes were cast.
Southwest Fort Worth and the suburban communities around Loop 820 recorded the highest voter turnout rates in the county during both cycles.
This story was originally published November 6, 2024 at 2:13 PM.
