The city of Plano, TX is located in Collin County and is a part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. Its population as of 2019 was estimated to be 282,016 people. Politically, Plano leans towards the Republican Party for its local elections with many conservative representatives being voted into office. The current mayor of the city is Harry LaRosiliere who has been in office since 2013 and previously held political positions at the state level. Additionally, Plano's congressional district is represented by Republican Van Taylor who has held office since 2019. Overall, Plano is very much a conservative city politically when compared to other locations in Texas and across the country.
The political climate in Zip 75024 (Plano, TX) is leaning conservative.
Collin County, TX is leaning conservative. In Collin County, TX 46.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 51.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Collin county remained Republican, 51.3% to 46.9%.
Collin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 75024 (Plano, TX) is leaning conservative.
Plano, Texas is leaning conservative.
Collin County, Texas is leaning conservative.
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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.
Plano, 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 zip 75024 (Plano)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,850 contributions totaling $203,775 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $110 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 741 contributions totaling $10,762,823 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $14,525 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)