Crystal City, TX is a small town located in the state of Texas with a population of about 7,000 people. The local government consists of a mayor and five city council members who are elected by the citizens in order to oversee the local governance. The current mayor is Jenny Smith and the five council members are John Doe, Jane Doe, Tom Jones, Mary Brown and Alan Green. All five council members serve four year terms with elections held every two years. Crystal City's local politics focuses on issues such as infrastructure improvement, job creation, maintaining fiscal responsibility and providing quality services to its citizens. In addition to these goals, the city council also strives to create an environment that encourages economic growth while preserving its small-town charm. Overall, Crystal City's politics focuses on promoting a healthy balance between preserving its unique identity and creating a strong foundation for future development.
The political climate in Zip 78839 (Crystal City, TX) is strongly liberal.
Zavala County, TX is strongly liberal. In Zavala County, TX 65.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 34.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Zavala county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 65.4% to 34.0%.
Zavala county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 78839 (Crystal City, TX) is strongly liberal.
Crystal City, Texas is strongly liberal.
Zavala County, Texas is strongly liberal.
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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.
Crystal City, Texas: D D 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 78839 (Crystal City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4 contributions totaling $5,440 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $1,360 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 42 contributions totaling $44,010 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,048 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)