The Hills, TX is a growing city in the state of Texas with a vibrant political scene. The city has an elected mayor and seven city council members who are responsible for setting the budget, enacting laws, and making decisions about local issues such as public safety, infrastructure, and education. The Hills is also home to several local political organizations that are actively involved in promoting citizen engagement in the process of decision making. These organizations host events such as candidate forums and community meetings to address important issues facing The Hills residents. In addition, many candidates from both major parties run for office each election cycle in order to represent the interests of their constituents in this Texas city.
The political climate in The Hills, TX is somewhat liberal.
Travis County, TX is very liberal. In Travis County, TX 71.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 26.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Travis county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 71.4% to 26.4%.
Travis county voted Democratic in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Republican in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
The Hills, TX is somewhat liberal.
Travis County, Texas is very liberal.
Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown Metro Area is strongly 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.
The Hills, Texas: r D 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 The Hills, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,321 contributions totaling $710,528 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $134 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,491 contributions totaling $2,538,526 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,019 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)