Balch Springs, TX is a city located in Dallas county with a population of around 25,100 people. The city is served by a Mayor-Council government, run by a popularly elected mayor and six council members. The current mayor is Deborah Shingles and the council includes Willie Mae Coleman, Micah B. Moore Jr., Joseph “Joe” Bonaparte, Charles Vickers, Joe Hodge, and Porsha Odom. Recently, the city has been focusing on improving public safety through increased police presence and greater investment in community resources. It has also been pushing for infrastructure projects such as improved roads and other public works to improve the quality of life for its citizens. Balch Springs is also actively engaged in local politics - they hold elections for City Council positions regularly and host a number of events throughout the year to keep residents informed about important causes and current issues facing the city.
The political climate in Balch Springs, TX is moderately liberal.
Dallas County, TX is strongly liberal. In Dallas County, TX 64.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 33.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dallas county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.9% to 33.3%.
Dallas county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Balch Springs, TX is moderately liberal.
Dallas County, Texas is strongly liberal.
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.
Balch Springs, Texas: r r D D 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 Balch Springs, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 992 contributions totaling $30,436 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $31 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 516 contributions totaling $66,902 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $130 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)