Tell, TX Political Map | Democrat & Republican Areas in Tell

By the BestNeighborhood data science team. Last updated May 2026.

Tell is a Republican stronghold. About 11% of voters here vote Democratic and 89% Republican.

 

About 56% of adults in Tell typically vote, below the U.S. average of about 62%. Among adults in Tell, ~6% vote Democratic, ~50% Republican, and ~44% don't vote. The map below shows estimated turnout by block group.

How Tell compares

Among cities within 25 miles, Tell leans more Republican than 5 of 10 neighbors.

Tell runs about 65 points more Republican than Texas as a whole.

Why Tell leans the way it does

This analysis examined 14,881 data points per city to find what predicts political lean and turnout. The items below are a few correlations that stood out for Tell, not a ranked or complete list of what matters most.

Areas with many family households vote Republican. About 81% of households in Tell are family households, about 14 points above the U.S. average of 67%. Rural areas vote Republican, and Tell sits in the bottom quarter on density (about 2%, below 95% of cities).

Paved land cover and Republican lean

Places with little paved surface tend to lean Republican; Tell, TX sits in the bottom tenth nationally on this measure. Paved ground does not change how people vote; it mostly reflects how urban and built-up a place is.

Why turnout in Tell looks the way it does

Areas with limited routine healthcare access turn out at lower rates. Tell is in the bottom quarter nationally for routine-care measures such as insurance coverage, preventive screenings, and dental visits. The dental-visit rate here is about 44%, about 9 points below the Texas average of 54%. Learn more about the findings and methodology on the political spectrum map.

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Sources and methodology

Precinct-level voting records used to fit the model come from Texas Secretary of State, Elections Division, distributed by the Voting and Election Science Team. Demographic inputs come from the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates and the 2020 Decennial Census). Health and environmental inputs come from the CDC (PLACES and the Environmental Justice Index). Land cover comes from the USGS and EPA. Election-day and lead-up weather come from PRISM 4km daily grids and the NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network. Mail-voting and election-administration patterns come from the MIT Election Lab's Survey of the Performance of American Elections. Block-group crime detail comes from CrimeGrade. Internet data and modeling support provided by ISPreports.org.

Modeling and analysis by the BestNeighborhood data science team. Full methodology and findings: political spectrum map.

Methodology reviewed by the BestNeighborhood data team. Last updated May 2026.