Citrus City, TX is a small town located in the Texas Hill Country. The city is governed by a mayor and five-member city council who work to ensure the safety and well-being of its citizens. Each elected official serves staggered two year terms. The mayor and council are responsible for creating policy, setting taxes, public services, budgeting, zoning and land use regulation. In addition to local government, Citrus City also has state representatives who are elected to represent the interests of their constituents at the state level. There are strict regulations in place regarding campaign finance laws that dictate what kinds of donations candidates can accept for their campaigns as well as restrictions on how much money can be spent on political ads and literature. With all of these checks in place, Citrus City’s local government works hard to ensure fair elections and representation for its citizens.
The political climate in Citrus City, TX is moderately liberal.
Hidalgo County, TX is moderately liberal. In Hidalgo County, TX 58.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 41.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hidalgo county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.0% to 41.0%.
Hidalgo county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Citrus City, TX is moderately liberal.
Hidalgo County, Texas is moderately liberal.
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission Metro Area is moderately 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.
Citrus City, Texas: D D 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 Citrus City, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 408 contributions totaling $36,518 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $90 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 92 contributions totaling $33,364 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $363 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)