Garden City, TX is a small city located in the foothills of West Texas. The city has a long history of local politics, with a focus on maintaining its small-town character and preserving its unique culture. The City Council is made up of five elected members who are charged with making decisions that affect the quality of life in Garden City. The Council works to ensure that all citizens have access to services and resources that benefit everyone in the community. Local political candidates often focus on issues like economic development, public safety, infrastructure improvements, and environmental sustainability. There has been an active effort from both current and pastCity Council members to make sure that Garden City remains a vibrant and attractive place for people to call home.
The political climate in Garden City, TX is strongly conservative.
Glasscock County, TX is very conservative. In Glasscock County, TX 6.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 93.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Glasscock county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 93.6% to 6.0%.
Glasscock county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Garden City, TX is strongly conservative.
Glasscock County, Texas is very conservative.
Big Spring Metro Area is very 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.
Garden City, 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 Garden City, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 18 contributions totaling $5,000 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $278 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 180 contributions totaling $61,510 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $342 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)