La Salle County is located in south Texas and is a predominantly rural area. The politics in La Salle county tend to lean towards the conservative side, with Republicans leading the majority of local and state offices. There are currently no specific political candidates running for office in La Salle County, but residents can expect to see local campaigns in the near future as they strive to make their voices heard. In addition to local elections, La Salle County voters have a great impact on larger state-wide and national issues. Local residents take part in debates surrounding immigration, taxes, healthcare reform, and education policy, among many other topics that affect their daily lives. As such, it’s important for La Salle County residents to stay informed about the latest political news and register to vote when given the opportunity.
The political climate in La Salle County, TX is somewhat conservative.
In La Salle County, TX 43.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 55.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, La Salle county flipped strongly Republican, 55.5% to 43.7%.
La Salle county flipped Republican afer voting Democratic in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
La Salle County, TX is somewhat conservative.
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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.
La Salle, Texas: D D D D D 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 La Salle County, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 41 contributions totaling $5,997 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $146 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 88 contributions totaling $14,576 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $166 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)