As you can see from the right side of the graph, Collin County voters were never big fans of Trump in the first place.
Election results: Wikipedia,
3rd party votes: 34% in 1992, 8.5% in 1996, 6.2% in 2016
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 23.7% of the vote in 1968)
Headline: The Texas Tribune, 19/27/2026
Gabby Birembaum reports:
Slack is among a cohort of voters the GOP has struggled to retain in recent cycles — college-educated, suburban women. The party has been able to withstand the bleeding in Texas by picking up new cohorts, especially non-college educated voters of color. But as corporate relocations and booming growth make Texas’ suburbs larger and more diverse, the voting trends in places like McKinney are enormously consequential for both parties as they battle for control over a red state whose hue has become dangerously pale for Republicans this cycle.
Nowhere are the patterns of suburban growth and political transformation more on display than Collin County — where Paxton got his political start as a state representative in 2003 and eventually rose to serve as attorney general. While nearby Tarrant County has long been considered the Texas bellwether, statewide Democrats are bullish about their chances of winning there, as their candidates have in recent cycles. [emphasis added]
In 1984, Ronald Reagan won Collin County by 63.4 percentage points.
In 2020, Donald Trump won the county by just 4.4 percentage points.
In 2024, too many voters foolishly took Donald Trump at his word -- ending inflation on 'day one', 'no more wars', cheaper groceries, ad nauseum -- and what did it get them: chaos, corruption, and creeing authoritarianism.
The population of Collin County has increased % since 1960.
This population growth has resulted in an increase in diversity.
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