The city of Sugar Land, TX is governed by a Mayor-Council form of government. The current mayor is Joe Zimmerman, who was elected in 2019 and will serve until 2021. The City Council consists of seven members, each representing one of seven districts within the city. Members of the council are elected to two-year terms, and the mayor serves a four-year term. As a municipality located in Fort Bend County, Sugar Land is also represented at the state level by several Texas House and Senate representatives. Additionally, all citizens residing in Sugar Land are represented by Congressional representatives for the United States Congress from both parties. The residents of Sugar Land strive to keep their city politically engaged and involved in order to ensure that their voice is heard on all levels of government and that their needs as a community are met.
The political climate in Sugar Land, TX is leaning liberal.
Fort Bend County, TX is somewhat liberal. In Fort Bend County, TX 54.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Fort Bend county remained strongly Democratic, 54.6% to 44.0%.
Fort Bend county voted Democratic in 2020 and 2016, after voting Republican in the previous four elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sugar Land, TX is leaning liberal.
Fort Bend County, Texas is somewhat liberal.
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land 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.
Sugar Land, Texas: R R r r d D
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 Sugar Land, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 23,602 contributions totaling $3,573,664 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $151 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 10,532 contributions totaling $4,240,387 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $403 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)