Lucas, TX is a small city located in Collin County. Despite its size, Lucas has an active political landscape. The city is run by a mayor and five council members, who are all elected to two-year terms by the local citizens. Every election cycle, the citizens of Lucas have the opportunity to select the candidates they believe best represent their interests in leading their community. Issues such as infrastructure improvements, public safety, and economic development are all debated during election season. Candidates typically focus on how they plan to improve the quality of life for all residents in Lucas. With each passing year, more residents become actively engaged in shaping their community’s future through voting and participating in local elections.
The political climate in Lucas, TX is somewhat 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
Lucas, TX is somewhat 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.
Lucas, 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 Lucas, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,817 contributions totaling $191,775 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $68 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,825 contributions totaling $258,670 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $142 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)