Gruver, TX is a small town located in the Texas Panhandle region. It has a population of just over 1,300 people and is governed by a Mayor-Council form of government. The current mayor is Debbie Johnson and the five city council members are Jon Thompson, Mary Smith, Joe Bennett, Tonya Hodges, and Jacob Jones. In Gruver’s government structure, the City Council sets policy for the town while the Mayor acts as its administrative head. The City Council meets once a month to discuss matters such as budgets, ordinances and zoning regulations. Local elections are held every two years for both the Mayor and the Council Members. This allows Gruver citizens to have an active role in their local politics and ensures that their voices are heard when it comes to decisions about their community.
The political climate in Gruver, TX is strongly conservative.
Hansford County, TX is very conservative. In Hansford County, TX 8.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 90.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hansford county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 90.3% to 8.1%.
Hansford county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Gruver, TX is strongly conservative.
Hansford 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.
Gruver, 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 Gruver, 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 21 contributions totaling $2,208 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $105 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)