Banquete, TX is a small rural town located in Nueces County in South Texas. The politics of Banquete are largely based on local issues that affect the people living there. For example, the local school board elections focus on how to best allocate resources to provide quality education for the children of Banquete. Other topics of interest include how to improve infrastructure and create more jobs in the area. Local candidates vying for office tend to focus on these issues and how they can help make Banquete a better place to live. With strong community engagement and hard work, Banquete looks forward to an even brighter future for its citizens and businesses.
The political climate in Banquete, TX is leaning conservative.
Nueces County, TX is leaning conservative. In Nueces County, TX 47.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Nueces county remained Republican, 50.8% to 47.9%.
Nueces county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Banquete, TX is leaning conservative.
Nueces County, Texas is leaning conservative.
Corpus Christi Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
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.
Banquete, 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 Banquete, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 366 contributions totaling $18,659 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $51 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 169 contributions totaling $44,440 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $263 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)