Carbon, Texas is a small town located in East Texas with a population of just over 400 people. Despite its size, Carbon still has active politics and is governed by a mayor and four city council members who are elected every two years. The current mayor is John Smith, and the city council members include Mary Jones, Wayne Jenkins, Julie Taylor, and Charles Brown. Each member of the Carbon City Council works together to create policies and decide on local issues such as infrastructure projects, public safety initiatives, budgeting for education programs, zoning decisions, and more. The City Council meets at least once a month to discuss any changes or updates that need to be made in order to ensure Carbon remains a welcoming place for its citizens. Overall, politics in Carbon remain relatively stable due to the effort put forth by the local government officials to keep up with current issues facing the town.
The political climate in Carbon, TX is strongly conservative.
Eastland County, TX is very conservative. In Eastland County, TX 11.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 87.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Eastland county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 87.3% to 11.9%.
Eastland county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Carbon, TX is strongly conservative.
Eastland County, Texas 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.
Carbon, 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 Carbon, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 5 contributions totaling $1,650 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $330 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)