Oak Leaf, TX is a small town located in the beautiful countryside of Northern Texas where politics can have a big impact on everyday life. The political environment in Oak Leaf is largely conservative and there are several local political initiatives that aim to represent its citizens' values. Local residents take an active role in their community and often vote during elections for candidates they believe will best serve the needs of the town. There are various organizations such as the Oak Leaf Civic League and the Oak Leaf Chamber of Commerce that work together to ensure that everyone’s voice is heard when it comes to important issues facing their community. These groups also strive to promote bipartisanship, ensuring that all citizens’ opinions are taken into account when making decisions about how the town should move forward.
The political climate in Oak Leaf, TX is strongly conservative.
Ellis County, TX is very conservative. In Ellis County, TX 32.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 66.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ellis county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 66.2% to 32.2%.
Ellis county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Oak Leaf, TX is strongly conservative.
Ellis County, Texas is very conservative.
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.
Oak Leaf, 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 Oak Leaf, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 948 contributions totaling $49,266 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $52 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 632 contributions totaling $111,675 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $177 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)