Eastland County, TX is a rural county located in Central Texas. Despite its small size, the county plays an important role in politics throughout the state. The county is represented by two Republican members of the Texas House of Representatives and one Democratic member of the Texas Senate. The local government is elected by the residents of Eastland County to help define and enact policies that affect the entire region. The local political climate has been dominated by conservative values for many years now, but recently there has been a shift towards more progressive ideas. With changing demographics in Eastland County, it will be interesting to see how this trend continues in the future.
The political climate in Eastland County, TX is very conservative.
In Eastland County, TX 11.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 87.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Eastland county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 87.3% to 11.9%.
Eastland county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Eastland 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.
Eastland, 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 Eastland County, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 101 contributions totaling $36,566 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $362 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 454 contributions totaling $23,580,085 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $51,939 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)