Weston Lakes is a small town located in Fort Bend County, Texas. The town is mainly composed of rural residential neighborhoods and has an active community that participates in local politics. Residents take pride in their neighborhood and aim to make it a safe and desirable place to live. Local political issues are discussed often and many residents attend town hall meetings to voice their opinions. Recent topics of discussion have included analyzing the budget for upcoming projects, improving public transportation infrastructure, environmental protection regulations, and increasing economic development opportunities. Weston Lakes residents value their community and strive to establish policies that will benefit all who live there.
The political climate in Weston Lakes, TX is leaning liberal.
Fort Bend County, TX is somewhat liberal. In Fort Bend County, TX 54.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Fort Bend county remained strongly Democratic, 54.6% to 44.0%.
Fort Bend county voted Democratic in 2020 and 2016, after voting Republican in the previous four elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Weston Lakes, TX is leaning liberal.
Fort Bend County, Texas is somewhat liberal.
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.
Weston Lakes, Texas: R R r r d 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 Weston Lakes, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 449 contributions totaling $248,113 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $553 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 663 contributions totaling $146,714 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $221 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)