Collin County, Texas is known for its strong political climate and has a wide variety of local political candidates who are actively campaigning for various positions. The county offers voters the opportunity to have their voices heard through voting in local elections. This includes electing representatives to the City Council and School Board as well as choosing members to represent the county on state legislative issues. Additionally, several initiatives and ballot measures come before voters each election season that require approval or disapproval from Collin County voters. The current political landscape in Collin County is highly contested and requires thoughtful research by voters so they can make educated decisions when participating in the election process.
The political climate in Collin County, TX is leaning conservative.
In Collin County, TX 46.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 51.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Collin county remained Republican, 51.3% to 46.9%.
Collin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Collin County, TX is leaning 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.
Collin, 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Collin County, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 29,239 contributions totaling $4,076,054 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $139 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 17,288 contributions totaling $17,968,946 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,039 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)