The politics in Houston, TX 77094 are mainly centered around the local government. The City of Houston is managed by Mayor Sylvester Turner, who is supported by a city council of sixteen members. Each member represents a district within the city and works to ensure the needs of their constituents are met. In addition, Houston is in Texas's 18th Congressional District, which is represented in Congress by Sheila Jackson Lee. Lesser known local political candidates also regularly run for office at various levels throughout Harris County to represent the people of 77094.
The political climate in Zip 77094 (Houston, TX) is leaning 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 77094 (Houston, TX) is leaning liberal.
Houston, Texas is leaning 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 77094 (Houston)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 360 contributions totaling $47,526 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $132 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 503 contributions totaling $171,107 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $340 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)