Houston, TX 77017 is a diverse and vibrant community located in the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Like many cities in Texas, politics plays an important role in the local government. On the federal level, Houston’s representatives include Sheila Jackson Lee (U.S. House of Representatives) and John Cornyn (U.S. Senate). On the state level, representatives include Mary Ann Perez (Texas House of Representatives) and Sylvia Garcia (Texas Senate). At the local level, Houston is part of Precinct 2 Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia's district. Each elected official works hard to ensure that Houston residents are receiving adequate resources from the government and are being heard on issues that affect their daily lives.
The political climate in Zip 77017 (Houston, TX) is somewhat liberal.
Harris County, TX is somewhat liberal. In Harris County, TX 55.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Harris county remained strongly Democratic, 55.9% to 42.7%.
Harris county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 77017 (Houston, TX) is somewhat liberal.
Houston, Texas is somewhat liberal.
Harris County, Texas is somewhat liberal.
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land Metro Area is leaning liberal.
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.
Houston, Texas: R R d d D D
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 77017 (Houston)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 364 contributions totaling $1,205,955 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $3,313 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 66 contributions totaling $94,250 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,428 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)