San Marcos, Texas is a vibrant city located in south-central Texas. It's home to approximately 63,000 residents and a thriving economy. In terms of politics, San Marcos is part of Hays County and is represented at the federal level by Democrat Lloyd Doggett in the United States House of Representatives and Republican John Cornyn and Ted Cruz in the U.S. Senate. At the state level, San Marcos is represented by three members of the Texas House of Representatives: Democrat Erin Zwiener, Democrat Eddie Rodriguez, and Republican Jason Isaac. This diverse delegation works together for the benefit of all citizens in San Marcos, regardless of their political affiliations. They are dedicated to strengthening the educational system, creating jobs for local residents, protecting social services like Medicaid, and ensuring that every person has access to opportunity regardless of race or socio-economic status.
The political climate in San Marcos, TX is somewhat liberal.
Hays County, TX is somewhat liberal. In Hays County, TX 54.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 43.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hays county flipped strongly Democratic, 54.4% to 43.6%.
Hays county flipped Democratic after voting Republican in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
San Marcos, TX is somewhat liberal.
Hays County, Texas is somewhat liberal.
Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown Metro Area is strongly 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.
San Marcos, Texas: R R r R r D
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 San Marcos, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 16,054 contributions totaling $1,036,208 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $65 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,806 contributions totaling $711,234 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $253 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)