Highland Park is a small city in Texas with a population of 8,564. Despite its size, it is an active political environment. Local elections often attract candidates representing the varied interests of Highland Park’s residents, including economic development and protection of the area’s parks and natural resources. City Council meetings are attended by citizens who are passionate about the future of their community. In addition to local elections, Highland Park also participates in county, state and national races, giving its citizens a chance to make their voices heard on a larger scale.
The political climate in Highland Park, TX is somewhat liberal.
Dallas County, TX is strongly liberal. In Dallas County, TX 64.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 33.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dallas county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.9% to 33.3%.
Dallas county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Highland Park, TX is somewhat liberal.
Dallas County, Texas is strongly liberal.
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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.
Highland Park, 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 Highland Park, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 24,948 contributions totaling $11,025,606 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $442 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 8,033 contributions totaling $27,168,595 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $3,382 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)