Goliad County, Texas is a small county located in southeastern Texas. Over the last few decades, it has seen a steady rise in population and an increase in economic activity. Despite this growth, Goliad County remains relatively rural with most of its residents engaged in farming or agricultural related activities. Politically, Goliad County leans slightly conservative with Republicans largely dominating local elections in recent years. Local candidates focus on issues such as increasing access to healthcare, improving education opportunities and infrastructure investment to support economic development. Current state representatives for Goliad County are Republican Geanie Morrison and Republican Todd Hunter who both serve on the Texas House of Representatives. Additionally, a number of local non-partisan groups have been formed over the past decade to promote civic engagement on topics such as sustainability and environmental protection. All these efforts have helped create a vibrant political environment within Goliad County that seeks to build a better future for all its citizens.
The political climate in Goliad County, TX is very conservative.
In Goliad County, TX 22.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 77.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Goliad county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 77.2% to 22.0%.
Goliad county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Goliad County, TX is very conservative.
Victoria Metro Area is very 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.
Goliad, 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 Goliad County, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 107 contributions totaling $9,740 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $91 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 126 contributions totaling $20,656 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $164 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)