Texas 2024 live election results: Trump projected to win

ABC News is projecting that former President Donald Trump will win Texas.

As the winner of the presidential race, he would take the state's 40 electoral votes, making the state a significant prize.

State significance

Texas has voted for the Republican candidate for president since 1980, although Trump won the state in 2020 by just about a 6-point margin.

In the Senate race, incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is projected to win against Democratic Rep. Colin Allred. Democrats were trying to flip the Senate seat, tapping Allred as a high-profile candidate to take on Cruz.

Voters were also choosing who will take the 18th Congressional District seat previously held by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat, who passed away in July. Her daughter, Erica Lee Carter, is projected to win a special election to finish out the final weeks of Jackson Lee's term. In the race for the full term, former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has a wide lead, preliminary results from the Texas Secretary of State's Office show.

Counties are colored red or blue when the % expected vote reporting reaches a set threshold. This threshold varies by state and is based on patterns of past vote reporting and expectations about how the vote will report this year.