Big Spring, TX is a small city located in Howard County and part of the larger Big Spring metropolitan area. Like many cities in the Lone Star state, Big Spring is politically conservative. The current Mayor of Big Spring is Tommy Duncan and their City Council is composed of five members: Mike Cardenas, Janice Lopez, Dora Slusher, Phil Massengale, and Jesus Zuniga. All are dedicated to keeping Big Spring a safe and welcoming place to live for all its citizens. They are also committed to maintaining the city’s strong economic growth through job creation, business investment, and infrastructure development. Additionally, they strive to ensure that public resources are efficiently managed in order to best serve the community. As a result of this commitment from local leaders, Big Spring has become an attractive destination for businesses and residents alike looking for a safe and prosperous environment in which to live and work.
The political climate in Zip 79720 (Big Spring, TX) is strongly conservative.
Howard County, TX is very conservative. In Howard County, TX 20.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Howard county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.6% to 20.2%.
Howard county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 79720 (Big Spring, TX) is strongly conservative.
Big Spring, Texas is strongly conservative.
Howard County, Texas is very conservative.
Big Spring 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.
Big Spring, 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 79720 (Big Spring)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 99 contributions totaling $7,385 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $75 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 556 contributions totaling $97,399 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $175 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)