With local results from the 2024 general election finalized, our election team has been doing a deep dive into how each precinct voted on the City of Amarillo’s five ballot propositions.

Of the five propositions on the ballot, Proposition A brought the most controversy. Had it passed, it would have put in place an ordinance prohibiting abortion within the city. Much of the controversy centered around a provision supporters called a prohibition on “abortion trafficking.” Critics of the ordinance, including several prominent conservatives, instead called the provision a “travel ban.”

Proposition A failed with 59.46% of voters rejecting the ordinance. The split was similar across both Potter and Randall Counties, with 60.92% voting against in Potter and 58.63% voting against in Randall.

Looking closer at individual precincts, there were only three where a majority voted for Prop A. In Potter County, Precinct 222, which includes parts of Eastridge, voted for the Proposition with 324 votes for and 294 votes against. In Randall County, two of the southernmost precincts voted for the proposition. Randall County Precinct 317 saw 54 votes for and 33 votes against. The measure did best percentage-wise in Randall County Precinct 309, where 6 voted for and only 1 voted against.

The precincts with the lowest support for Prop A were Potter County Precinct 123 and Randall County Precinct 208. Potter County Precinct 123, which includes the area south of I-40 from I-27 to Western saw only 27.92% of the 2,203 votes cast go for the proposition. Meanwhile, Randall County Precinct 208, which includes areas in the far western part of the Randall County portion of the city, saw only 2 of the 8 votes cast go for the proposition.

Proposition A map (For=Green, Against=Red. Darker shade=larger percentage margin)/Graphic by Noah Dawson

Proposition B, a proposed charter amendment which sought to add two new seats to Amarillo City Council, would have been the first time Amarillo’s governing body was expanded since the 1950s. Proposition B failed by a much smaller margin than Proposition A, with 52.41% voting against the measure. The measure did actually receive a majority of votes cast in Potter County, with 51.22% of voters there supporting the proposition. However, the 54.45% voting against in Randall County stopped the amendment from being adopted.

The proposition earned a majority of support in most Potter County precincts, with the only Precincts in Potter going against being 121, 123, 124, 125, 323, 324, and 326. The Potter County precinct which was most strongly against Prop B was 323, the most northern precinct, where 310 voted against and only 176 voted for. Meanwhile, the Potter County Precinct where Prop B did best was 222, the only precinct in Potter which also voted for Prop A.

In Randall County, only five of the county’s nineteen precincts supported Prop B. Those were 208, 216, 309, 317, and 415. Precinct 309, which was the best overall performing precinct for Prop B, saw five votes cast for the proposition and only one against.

While the rest of the county opposed the proposition, there weren’t any precincts where support was below 40%. Precinct 227, which is mostly bounded by Soncy, Bell, Southwest 45th, and Hillside, saw 1,064 votes for and 1,581 against.

Proposition B map (For=Green, Against=Red. Darker shade=larger percentage margin)/Graphic by Noah Dawson

Proposition C was another proposed charter amendment. This proposal would have moved the council from 2-year consecutive terms to 4-year staggered terms. The proposal was similar to one rejected by voters in 2020. While the 2020 version only narrowly failed, the 2024 version saw 60.53% of voters rejecting the measure this year. Unlike Proposition B, Prop C failed by similar margins in both counties, with 60.53% of Randall voters against and 59.77% of Potter voters against.

The only precinct which supported Prop C was Randall 309, where 4 voted for and 3 voted against. The prop also tied in Randall 208, with 4 for and 4 against.

The worst-performing precinct for Prop C in Randall was 418 (which is mostly between Teckla and Paramount), where it saw 744 votes for and 1,294 votes against.

Though the proposition failed in all of Potter’s precincts, it came closest in 222, where 283 voted for and 295 voted against. Meanwhile, the overall worst-performing precinct for Prop C was Potter 323, where 164 voted for and 321 voted against.

Proposition C map (For=Green, Against=Red. Darker shade=larger percentage margin)/Graphic by Noah Dawson

Proposition D has the most narrow failure of the city props. Proposition D would have reduced the signature threshold to recall a member of Amarillo City Council, though it would have also introduced lock-out periods at the beginning and end of the term of office. Overall, 50.72% of voters rejected Prop D. The difference in the vote totals between for and against was 921.

Illustrating how tight the margin was for Prop D, Potter County Precinct 121 (which is centered on Western & Amarillo Boulevard) saw exactly 674 votes for and 674 votes against the proposal. Similarly, in Randall County Precinct 114 (bounded by Georgia, Tradewind, 58th, and 46th), there were 1,092 votes for and 1,091 votes against.

Prop D failed the worst in Potter 123, where there were 900 votes for to 1,173 votes against. The best precinct in Potter for Prop D was 222, where there were 328 votes for to 225 against.

The worst precinct for Prop D in Randall was 429 (which mostly contains the Randall County portion of the Wolflin neighborhood), where it failed with 1,195 for to 1,462 against. The overall best precinct for Prop D percentage-wise was Randall 208, where 5 votes were cast for and 3 against.

Proposition D map (For=Green, Against=Red. Darker shade=larger percentage margin)/Graphic by Noah Dawson

Proposition E, a charter amendment which requires the city hold special elections to fill vacancies to Amarillo City Council and institutes a resign-to-run provision for members of Amarillo City Council, was the only proposition to pass.

The proposal earned a majority of support from every precinct in the city except for Potter Precinct 123, where 1,019 voted for it and 1,022 voted against. The best-performing precinct for Prop E in Potter County was 222, where it passed 343 to 206.

In Randall County, Precinct 309 saw all 6 votes cast go for Prop E. The proposal only narrowly won a majority of support in 429, where 1,326 voted for and 1,297 voted against.

Proposition E map (For=Green, Against=Red. Darker shade=larger percentage margin)/Graphic by Noah Dawson

In addition to looking at how each proposition did in each precinct, we also compared the precinct-level proposition results to the proposition-level presidential election results.

For Proposition A, there was almost zero correlation between how President Trump did and how the proposition did, further underlying how deeply split local conservatives were on the measure. The r-squared value for the trendline between the two was only 0.0004, with the slope of the trendline 0.0181.

Looking at the data for the other props, the trendlines were all slightly negative. They did produce higher r-squared values than Prop A, though this only ranged from 0.0937 to 0.4044. The 0.4044 r-squared value was for the Prop B data, where the trendline had a slope of -0.5232, indicating a slight negative correlation between support for Trump and support for Prop B. The slope of the trendlines for the remaining propositions was between -0.2178 and -0.1372.