El Lago, TX is a small city located in the Houston metropolitan area. The politics in El Lago are largely focused on local issues such as infrastructure spending, environmental protection, and improving the local economy. As such, there are many local political candidates running for office in the city, from both major parties. The candidates all have different ideas about how to best address the issues facing El Lago and its citizens. They also work together to ensure that the city's resources are shared fairly across different neighborhoods and regions of the city. Despite their differences, they share a common goal: to make El Lago an even better place to live and work for everyone who calls it home.
The political climate in El Lago, TX is somewhat liberal.
Harris County, TX is somewhat liberal. In Harris County, TX 55.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Harris county remained strongly Democratic, 55.9% to 42.7%.
Harris county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
El Lago, TX is somewhat liberal.
Harris 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.
El Lago, 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 El Lago, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,294 contributions totaling $188,261 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $145 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,606 contributions totaling $382,852 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $238 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)