Santa Fe, TX is a small city located in Galveston County. It has a wide range of political perspectives that are represented by both local and state representatives. Santa Fe's mayor is Joe Soto, who was elected in 2017. The city council consists of 5 members who are elected to serve four-year terms. In addition, the State Senate and House Representatives for Santa Fe are all Democrats. These representatives focus on issues such as education, economic development, and housing affordability that impact the local community directly. As a whole, the politics in Santa Fe are heavily focused on improving quality of life for residents in order to ensure sustainable growth going forward into the future.
The political climate in Santa Fe, TX is moderately conservative.
Galveston County, TX is moderately conservative. In Galveston County, TX 37.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Galveston county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.6% to 37.9%.
Galveston county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Santa Fe, TX is moderately conservative.
Galveston County, Texas is moderately conservative.
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land 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.
Santa Fe, 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 Santa Fe, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,000 contributions totaling $131,645 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $66 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,797 contributions totaling $212,049 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $118 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)