South Houston, TX is a small city in the greater Houston area, and it is known for its highly engaged political environment. The city places great importance on civic participation and encourages citizens to get involved in local politics. The city council strives to ensure that all voices are heard and the interests of the community are served. A major focus is on promoting economic growth, providing infrastructure improvements, and creating a better quality of life for its residents. The city seeks out feedback from its citizens on important social issues like education, public safety, and environmental protection. Citizens are also able to voice their opinions through elections as they have an opportunity to choose their representatives in local government who will be responsible for implementing policies that benefit South Houston.
The political climate in South Houston, TX is moderately liberal.
Harris County, TX is somewhat liberal. In Harris County, TX 55.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Harris county remained strongly Democratic, 55.9% to 42.7%.
Harris county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
South Houston, TX is moderately liberal.
Harris County, Texas is somewhat liberal.
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.
South Houston, Texas: R R d d D D
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 South Houston, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,000 contributions totaling $46,724 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $47 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 436 contributions totaling $122,760 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $282 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)