Lake Jackson, TX is a small community in Brazoria County that has a local flavor of politics. The city is run by a mayor-council government, where the mayor and council members are elected by the residents to serve two-year terms. Local elections typically include candidates for mayor, city council, and other various offices that serve the community. In addition to the local elections, Lake Jackson also participates in county and state elections every two years. Through these elections, residents have the opportunity to select representatives who will make decisions on their behalf and serve them at all levels of government. Together, these representatives help shape the future of Lake Jackson and ensure it remains a great place to live and work.
The political climate in Lake Jackson, TX is somewhat conservative.
Brazoria County, TX is moderately conservative. In Brazoria County, TX 40.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 58.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Brazoria county remained very strongly Republican, 58.3% to 40.2%.
Brazoria county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lake Jackson, TX is somewhat conservative.
Brazoria County, Texas is moderately conservative.
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land 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 Jackson, 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 Jackson, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,487 contributions totaling $212,852 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $61 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,981 contributions totaling $337,102 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $170 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)