Tolar, TX is a small town situated in the heart of Texas Hill Country. It is primarily a farming and ranching community with a population of approximately 2,000 people. The politics in Tolar are largely conservative, as is characteristic of much of rural Texas. Local elections focus on issues such as infrastructure development, economic growth and job creation, education standards, pro-business initiatives, and balancing the budget without raising taxes. The town elects its mayor and five council members to serve on the city council every two years. Each member serves a two-year term and must be re-elected to remain in office. Recent local political candidates have included Martha Whitefield for Mayor and Jeff Davis, Susan Smith, Roger Clark, Joe Ware and Scott Williams for the city council.
The political climate in Tolar, TX is very conservative.
Hood County, TX is very conservative. In Hood County, TX 17.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 81.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hood county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 81.4% to 17.4%.
Hood county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Tolar, TX is very conservative.
Hood 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.
Tolar, 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 Tolar, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 32 contributions totaling $2,914 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $91 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 118 contributions totaling $9,350 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $79 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)