Cleveland, TX is a small city in Texas located about 45 miles northeast of Houston. Politically, the town is part of Liberty County and is represented by several state representatives at the local, state and federal level. As part of Liberty County, Cleveland residents have access to local politicians who represent their interests in Austin and Washington D.C. At the county level, Liberty County Board of Commissioners has nine members who are elected to two-year terms from single-member districts. These commissioners oversee county departments such as health services, social services, public safety and economic development. On the state level, Cleveland citizens are represented by both a State Representative and State Senator in Austin. Finally, residents of Cleveland also have representation in Congress with one member in each house - the House Representative and Senators who look out for their best interests and ensure that they receive adequate funding for programs such as education initiatives or infrastructure improvements in their area.
The political climate in Cleveland, TX is somewhat conservative.
Liberty County, TX is very conservative. In Liberty County, TX 19.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Liberty county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.4% to 19.7%.
Liberty county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Cleveland, TX is somewhat conservative.
Liberty County, Texas is very 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.
Cleveland, 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 Cleveland, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 330 contributions totaling $30,391 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $92 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 593 contributions totaling $132,902 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $224 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)