San Angelo, Texas is a small city located in Tom Green County. The city has a mayor-council form of government with the mayor and council members serving as the executive and legislative branches of the government respectively. The current mayor is Brenda Gunter, who was elected to her first term in 2018 and reelected in 2020. San Angelo’s City Council consists of seven members who represent different geographical districts within the city. They are elected by residents of their district to three-year terms. The City Council meets every second and fourth Monday of each month to discuss and vote on matters concerning the community. The council addresses issues such as public safety, infrastructure, taxation, economic development, parks and recreation, housing, and urban planning. Additionally, they are responsible for setting San Angelo’s annual budget. As a result of this structure, San Angelo citizens have direct input into decisions that shape their lives in specific ways.
The political climate in San Angelo, TX is moderately conservative.
Tom Green County, TX is very conservative. In Tom Green County, TX 27.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 71.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Tom Green county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 71.5% to 27.1%.
Tom Green county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
San Angelo, TX is moderately conservative.
Tom Green County, Texas is very conservative.
San Angelo Metro Area is very conservative.
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.
San Angelo, 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 San Angelo, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,021 contributions totaling $321,521 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $106 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 6,113 contributions totaling $1,874,500 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $307 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)