Opdyke West, TX is a small, rural community with an active political atmosphere. Residents take great pride in their local government and elect officials who share the same values as the town. Each election season brings energetic campaigns featuring debates on topics that the local residents care about. Local issues such as taxes, economic development, education, and infrastructure are discussed at length by candidates from both major parties. The citizens of Opdyke West take their responsibility to vote seriously and turnout is always high during elections. The town is proud of its long history of fair and balanced politics regardless of party affiliation or political views.
The political climate in Opdyke West, TX is strongly conservative.
Hockley County, TX is very conservative. In Hockley County, TX 18.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 80.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hockley county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 80.7% to 18.3%.
Hockley county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Opdyke West, TX is strongly conservative.
Hockley County, Texas is very conservative.
Levelland Metro Area 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.
Opdyke West, 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 Opdyke West, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 59 contributions totaling $2,615 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $44 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 186 contributions totaling $38,540 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $207 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)