Cass County, TX is a relatively small county nestled in the northeastern corner of the state. Its politics are largely conservative and it is dominated by a Republican majority in both local and national elections. The county has traditionally been supportive of limited government and fiscal responsibility, preferring to leave most decision-making up to local citizens and their duly elected representatives. In recent years, however, Democrats have made some inroads as evidenced by the election of several progressive candidates to local offices like school board and city council. While Cass County remains mostly Republican at heart, there is certainly more diversity in political opinions today than there was even just a few years ago.
The political climate in Cass County, TX is very conservative.
In Cass County, TX 20.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cass county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.2% to 20.1%.
Cass county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Cass 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.
Cass, 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 Cass County, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 275 contributions totaling $28,695 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $104 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 497 contributions totaling $59,691 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $120 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)