Gary City, TX is a vibrant and diverse community located in southwest Texas. Politically, the city has traditionally been conservative with relatively few registered Democrats. Currently, Gary City has an active mayor representing the Republican Party and his team of council members also lean to the right. While most local political candidates tend to be from the Republican party, there are occasional independent or third-party candidates running for office in Gary City. Recently, the city has seen an increase in voter participation and civic engagement as more people become involved in local politics and take an interest in their public officials.
The political climate in Gary City, TX is strongly conservative.
Panola County, TX is very conservative. In Panola County, TX 18.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 81.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Panola county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 81.4% to 18.0%.
Panola county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Gary City, TX is strongly conservative.
Panola County, Texas 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.
Gary 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 Gary City, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 32 contributions totaling $1,935 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $60 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 240 contributions totaling $80,559 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $336 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)