West Orange, TX is a small city in the state of Texas. It is a conservative-leaning area with many local and state political races occurring every two years. More recently, West Orange has seen an increase in civic engagement on issues such as education, public safety, and economic development. The area is represented by several Republican politicians at both the local and state level, including Alan Ritter who is the State Representative for District 21 covering much of West Orange. Local elections are generally nonpartisan but tend to favor conservative candidates due to the area's history and values. Overall, politics in West Orange are divided along typical party lines with conservatives dominating much of the conversation.
The political climate in West Orange, TX is moderately conservative.
Orange County, TX is very conservative. In Orange County, TX 17.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 81.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Orange county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 81.1% to 17.7%.
Orange county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
West Orange, TX is moderately conservative.
Orange County, Texas is very conservative.
Beaumont-Port Arthur Metro Area is strongly 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.
West Orange, 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 West Orange, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 351 contributions totaling $22,913 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $65 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 192 contributions totaling $45,618 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $238 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)