Sutton County is located in Texas and is comprised of several small towns and rural areas. The county is governed by a Board of Commissioners which is responsible for making decisions about local government matters. These decisions include budgets, taxes, infrastructure projects, and more relating to the county’s day-to-day operations. Local elections are held every two years to determine who will be on the Board of Commissioners and make these important decisions. Every year, residents of Sutton County can cast their vote for local politicians who are vying for positions on this board. Allowing local citizens to have a voice in their government helps ensure that everyone’s opinion on how the county should be run is taken into consideration when making important decisions on behalf of the community.
The political climate in Sutton County, TX is very conservative.
In Sutton County, TX 20.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sutton county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.5% to 20.7%.
Sutton county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sutton 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.
Sutton, 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 Sutton County, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 23 contributions totaling $708 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $31 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 142 contributions totaling $39,223 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $276 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)