The city of Santa Fe, TX (77510) is part of Galveston County and is located in the southeastern portion of the state. The current mayor is Joe Soto, and currently there are six members on the City Council. While no local political candidates have been named yet, it is expected that City Council races will be contested in the upcoming municipal election. Santa Fe residents have a strong sense of civic engagement, participating in local government and engaging on issues that affect their community. In recent years, local elections have seen debates over infrastructure projects such as road repairs and water quality, as well as discussions about public safety measures like police staffing levels and traffic enforcement efforts. With a new election coming up soon, locals can expect a lively discussion on these important issues as they decide who will represent them at the municipal level.
The political climate in Zip 77510 (Santa Fe, TX) is moderately conservative.
Galveston County, TX is moderately conservative. In Galveston County, TX 37.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Galveston county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.6% to 37.9%.
Galveston county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 77510 (Santa Fe, TX) is moderately conservative.
Santa Fe, Texas is moderately conservative.
Galveston County, Texas is moderately conservative.
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.
Santa Fe, 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 77510 (Santa Fe)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 142 contributions totaling $14,143 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 267 contributions totaling $23,369 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $88 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)