The small town of Bishop, TX (78343) is located in Nueces County and is part of the larger Corpus Christi metropolitan area. Despite its size, the people of Bishop are deeply involved in their local politics. The town has two voting districts, each represented by three members on the Town Council. All citizens over the age of 18 are eligible to vote for these council members, who work together to make decisions on behalf of the residents. The Council meets every month to discuss issues facing the town, and welcomes feedback from Bishop's citizens. In addition to this, local elections for state lawmakers take place every other year and give citizens a chance to have a say in their representation at a higher level. It is clear that politics plays an important role in Bishop and that its active citizenry makes sure their voices are heard.
The political climate in Zip 78343 (Bishop, TX) is leaning conservative.
Nueces County, TX is leaning conservative. In Nueces County, TX 47.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Nueces county remained Republican, 50.8% to 47.9%.
Nueces county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 78343 (Bishop, TX) is leaning conservative.
Bishop, Texas is leaning conservative.
Nueces County, Texas is leaning conservative.
Corpus Christi Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Bishop, 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 78343 (Bishop)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 13 contributions totaling $798 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $61 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 127 contributions totaling $54,235 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $427 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)