6 Limitations

Some of the limitations that we encountered during our analysis was not having access to all of the data we wanted. For example, we were missing key data, such as voter registration stats, for five counties and as a result, we just could not use them in our analysis.

Also, because the county-level data for 2020’s presidential election is not available yet, we ended up choosing the 2016 election, which results in inaccuracies in some data. This is due to the fact that county-level census data is only available every 10 years (ex. 2010 or 2020). When we are using census data, we would have to choose data that is not 2016, just because of this unavailability.

If we had more time, I think we would have looked at more variables beyond demographics and income to try and get a deeper understanding for votes in Texas. I also think if this could be done in another time in the future, we could have looked at the 2020 election and done a comparison between the two elections in Texas to see what changed and possibly why those changes occurred.