79029 Dumas, TX is located in Moore County and is a small city with a population of approximately 13,000. The City of Dumas operates under the Council-Manager form of government, which consists of an elected mayor and six council members who are responsible for policy-making. Each member serves a three-year term and there are no term limits on city council members. The current Mayor is Cathleen Duke-Perez and the council members are Andrew Daniel, Johnny Martinez, Angie Barrera, Roy Joiner, Marci Birdwell, and Jody Loomis. The City Council meets every first Tuesday of the month at 6:00 pm at the Historic Municipal Complex in Dumas. As Mayor Duke-Perez has been in office since 2018 she has focused primarily on advocating to increase economic development opportunities such as bringing more businesses to the area to create jobs. Additionally, she has worked on increasing housing affordability within the area through programs like special tax incentives for developers. There have also been efforts to improve infrastructure such as repairing roadways and developing new parks. Overall, these initiatives are helping to make Dumas a better place for all who live here.
The political climate in Zip 79029 (Dumas, TX) is strongly conservative.
Moore County, TX is very conservative. In Moore County, TX 19.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Moore county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.1% to 19.3%.
Moore county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 79029 (Dumas, TX) is strongly conservative.
Dumas, Texas is strongly conservative.
Moore County, Texas is very conservative.
Dumas 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.
Dumas, 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 zip 79029 (Dumas)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 53 contributions totaling $16,391 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $309 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 126 contributions totaling $21,374 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $170 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)