Mount Vernon, TX is a small town located in Northeast Texas. As the county seat of Franklin County, it serves as a political center for the area. The local government is headed up by a mayor and five city council members who are elected to serve two year terms. The council oversees local ordinances, public safety, infrastructure improvements, and other aspects of running the town. Every four years the citizens of Mount Vernon have the opportunity to vote on candidates for mayor and city council positions in order to ensure a proper representation of their interests in local government. In addition, many residents are very active in state and national politics by attending rallies, organizing fundraisers, working on campaigns, and calling their representatives when issues arise that they feel strongly about.
The political climate in Mount Vernon, TX is strongly conservative.
Franklin County, TX is very conservative. In Franklin County, TX 16.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 83.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Franklin county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 83.1% to 16.1%.
Franklin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Mount Vernon, TX is strongly conservative.
Franklin 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.
Mount Vernon, 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 Mount Vernon, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 118 contributions totaling $2,796 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $24 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 112 contributions totaling $16,434 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $147 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)