Lackland Air Force Base is located in San Antonio, TX and serves as an important training and education center. The base houses the U.S. Air Force Security Forces Center and the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Lackland AFB also has a number of political organizations working to ensure that their rights are protected. These include the San Antonio Military Affairs Council, which works to facilitate cooperation between the city, local businesses, and Lackland AFB; the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Military and Family Readiness Center, which provides family services to service members; and the Texas Military Veterans Association of San Antonio, a non-profit organization that supports military veterans in the area. All these organizations strive to ensure that those serving at Lackland AFB have a voice in local politics and are represented fairly when it comes to decisions regarding their rights as citizens.
The political climate in Lackland AFB, TX is moderately liberal.
Bexar County, TX is moderately liberal. In Bexar County, TX 58.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 40.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bexar county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.2% to 40.1%.
Bexar county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lackland AFB, TX is moderately liberal.
Bexar County, Texas is moderately liberal.
San Antonio-New Braunfels 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.
Lackland AFB, 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 Lackland AFB, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 34 contributions totaling $649 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $19 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)