Aurora, TX is a small town with a population of about 3,000 people located in Ellis County. The town is governed by a mayor and five-member City Council, elected to two year terms. The mayor and aldermen are responsible for the city’s finances, law enforcement, public services such as garbage collection and road maintenance, and other municipal matters. Elections are held annually during May or June, with the incumbent mayor and council members running again if they wish to remain in office. Issues on the ballot may include local ordinances, ordinances proposed by the City Council or citizens initiatives that have been passed at an election. Along with these elections come local political candidates vying for these positions each year. Candidates will make their platforms clear to the voters so they can make informed decisions in the voting booth. With its small size and close-knit community, Aurora has a strong sense of civic pride that allows its citizens to feel connected to how their city is being run.
The political climate in Aurora, TX is very conservative.
Wise County, TX is very conservative. In Wise County, TX 15.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 83.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Wise county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 83.5% to 15.4%.
Wise county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Aurora, TX is very conservative.
Wise County, Texas is very 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.
Aurora, 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 Aurora, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 118 contributions totaling $1,317 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $11 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 190 contributions totaling $10,599 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $56 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)