Walker, TX County is a rural community located in Southeast Texas. It is governed by a Board of Commissioners and has an elected sheriff responsible for law enforcement. The county also has an elected County Judge who presides over court proceedings and is the chief administrative officer for all county departments. The county is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by District 16, which covers much of East Texas. Elections for local government offices occur every two years, giving citizens the opportunity to make their voices heard and shape their community's future. With a strong sense of civic responsibility, Walker County residents take part in local politics to ensure that their needs are met and their voices are heard.
The political climate in Walker County, TX is strongly conservative.
In Walker County, TX 33.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Walker county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.1% to 33.4%.
Walker county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Walker County, TX is strongly conservative.
Huntsville 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.
Walker, 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 Walker County, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 626 contributions totaling $53,083 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $85 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,341 contributions totaling $183,888 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $137 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)