New Braunfels, TX is a growing city that is becoming increasingly engaged in local politics. With the city's population steadily rising, more and more residents are becoming involved in the political process. While there are no local political candidates currently running for office, the New Braunfels City Council meets regularly to discuss issues such as public safety, infrastructure, economic development and sustainability. Residents can attend the meetings to voice their opinion on how they feel the city should move forward. The council also routinely hosts community forums and events to get feedback from citizens on their ideas for improvement. This allows residents to have an active voice in how their city is governed.
The political climate in New Braunfels, TX is moderately 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
New Braunfels, TX is moderately 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.
New Braunfels, 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 New Braunfels, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 8,318 contributions totaling $672,681 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $81 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 6,657 contributions totaling $1,512,838 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $227 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)