By 72,328 in Travis County alone.
Add Dallas County to the mix and you have a net Democratic gain of 96,933 votes in 20 counties.
FiveThirtyEight, 10/10/2021
The state as a whole has long voted reliably Republican, but about two-thirds of Texas’s population lives in one of the state’s four huge metropolitan areas — Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin. If you combine all the votes there, Democrats improved their margin by more than 5 percentage points between 2016 and 2020, carrying these areas 52 percent to 47 percent in November. This shift is significant because even though Texas’s border counties moved sharply to the right in 2020 — Starr County, for instance, swung a staggering 55 points toward Republicans [or a net shift of 6,206 votes out of 11,315,056 cast statewide] — Democrats’ gains in those four big cities and their suburbs added almost five times as many votes as Republicans’ gains in 28 counties along or near Texas’s border with Mexico.
Original 3/21/2022 post, "2020 election gains in Democratic Dallas County outweigh Republican success in 5 Texas border counties", starts here.
By 24,605 votes
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43 of the 50 most populous metro areas in the United States voted Democratic in 2020. (3/21/2022)
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