Lake Dunlap, TX is a small, rural community located in Central Texas. As such, it has limited political involvement as many of its citizens are focused on their daily lives and not particularly engaged in the politics of the larger cities and states. The local government is run by a mayor and council members who are elected every two years by the citizens of Lake Dunlap. While there may be occasional debates about certain issues within the city, there are no local political candidates running for office at this time. Instead, most of the political discussion revolves around national and state-level politics that directly affect Lake Dunlap's residents. Issues such as property taxes, health care costs, education funding, and economic growth are all important topics that affect Lake Dunlap's residents and can lead to lively discussions between those on different sides of these issues. Ultimately, however, Lake Dunlap remains a tight-knit community with most residents having strong ties to family, friends, faith organizations and other local institutions.
The political climate in Lake Dunlap, TX is moderately conservative.
Guadalupe County, TX is strongly conservative. In Guadalupe County, TX 37.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 61.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Guadalupe county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 61.2% to 37.0%.
Guadalupe county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lake Dunlap, TX is moderately conservative.
Guadalupe County, Texas is strongly conservative.
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.
Lake Dunlap, 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 Lake Dunlap, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,704 contributions totaling $262,690 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $71 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,002 contributions totaling $483,180 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $161 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)