Anderson County, Texas is a rural county located in the northeastern corner of the state. While many people living in Anderson County generally lean right politically, there are still a wide variety of political views represented in the area. Anderson County is part of State Senate District 3, currently represented by Republican Senator Robert Nichols. The U.S. House Representatives for Anderson County are Republicans Van Taylor and Jodey Arrington. On the local level, Anderson County is governed by four county commissioners representing different precincts in the county. The current commissioners are Garrett Finney (Precinct 1), Jerry Frey (Precinct 2), Peter Duncan (Precinct 3) and Jimmy Daugette (Precinct 4). Each commissioner serves a four-year term and can be reelected as often as they choose to run for office again. Additionally, there are numerous school boards throughout Anderson County that oversee various aspects of public education within their respective districts or regions.
The political climate in Anderson County, TX is very conservative.
In Anderson County, TX 20.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Anderson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.6% to 20.6%.
Anderson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Anderson County, TX is very conservative.
Palestine 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.
Anderson, 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 Anderson County, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 144 contributions totaling $7,350 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $51 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 498 contributions totaling $94,069 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $189 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)