Garden Ridge, TX is a small city located in Comal County. It is home to a diverse population of families and individuals who are actively involved in their local government. The city council works diligently to ensure that the needs of its citizens are met through maintaining services such as roadwork and public safety. On occasion, Garden Ridge residents will have the opportunity to elect new members of the city council or a mayor by participating in local elections. Garden Ridge strives to be an active and engaged community that works together to create positive change for its citizens.
The political climate in Garden Ridge, TX is strongly conservative.
Comal County, TX is very conservative. In Comal County, TX 27.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Comal county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.6% to 27.9%.
Comal county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Garden Ridge, TX is strongly conservative.
Comal County, Texas is very conservative.
San Antonio-New Braunfels Metro Area is leaning liberal.
Texas is leaning conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Garden Ridge, Texas: R R R R R R
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Garden Ridge, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,602 contributions totaling $239,866 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $92 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,014 contributions totaling $794,995 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $395 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)