Santa Clara is a small town in Texas located just south of Austin with a population of about 800 people. In terms of politics, the town is predominantly conservative, with many residents leaning Republican in terms of their political views. Santa Clara has a mayor-council form of government and holds elections every two years to fill all mayoral and council seats. In the last election, incumbents were reelected to all positions and no new candidates emerged from the process. The local politics focus on small issues such as managing the budget, improving public safety, and maintaining infrastructure. Residents regularly attend city council meetings to be informed on any current or upcoming issues that might affect their community.
The political climate in Santa Clara, 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
Santa Clara, 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.
Santa Clara, 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 Santa Clara, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,070 contributions totaling $194,591 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $63 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,343 contributions totaling $345,938 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $148 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)