 Since 2004 Jim Wells County has become somewhat less Democratic the during the late twentieth century, but nonetheless the Democratic candidate has won at least 53.77 percent of the county’s vote in every election since 1976.In the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton won 54.08 percent of Jim Wells County’s vote to Donald Trump’s 43.78 percent; in the 2012 election Barack Obama won 58.14 percent to Republican Mitt Romney’s 41.18 percent, whilst in 2008 President-elect Obama won 57.75 percent to John McCain’s 41.69 percent.In the 2018 gubernatorial election, Republican Greg Abbott won 52.04% of the vote in Jim Wells County, becoming the first member of his party to win the county in a statewide race.