Bailey County, TX is a rural county in the Panhandle region of Texas. It is home to just over 9,000 people and has one incorporated town – Muleshoe. Local politics in Bailey County are primarily centered around local government issues such as taxes, infrastructure projects, and public services. The county commissioners court is responsible for setting the budget, determining tax rates, and allocating funds for various initiatives throughout the county. The Bailey County Sheriff's Office and various smaller police departments serve the county's law enforcement needs. Elections are held every two years to choose representatives from each precinct who make up the Commissioners Court. There are also elections for Mayor of Muleshoe and other offices within the city limits of Muleshoe. State elections are held every two years when Texans go to the polls to decide on their representatives in Austin.
The political climate in Bailey County, TX is very conservative.
In Bailey County, TX 22.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 77.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bailey county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 77.1% to 22.0%.
Bailey county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bailey County, TX is very 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.
Bailey, 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 Bailey County, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 30 contributions totaling $2,005 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $67 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 67 contributions totaling $19,340 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $289 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)