Wharton County is located in the southeastern part of Texas and is known for its small-town charm. The county has a population of approximately 41,000 people across its 464 square miles. Politically, Wharton County leans heavily towards the Republican Party and all nine county officials are Republicans. In the 2016 Presidential Election, Donald Trump won 71% of the vote in Wharton County, making it one of his strongest counties in Texas. Local elections are also highly contested with multiple candidates from both parties running for office each election cycle. Voters in Wharton County care deeply about their community and take their local politics seriously.
The political climate in Wharton County, TX is very conservative.
In Wharton County, TX 28.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 71.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Wharton county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 71.2% to 28.0%.
Wharton county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Wharton County, TX is very conservative.
El Campo 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.
Wharton, 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 Wharton County, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 222 contributions totaling $20,175 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $91 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 652 contributions totaling $139,734 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $214 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)