Eagle Pass, Texas is located in Maverick County and lies on the border of Texas and Mexico. The city has a history of political activism and many of its residents are passionate about their local politics. The city is represented in the United States House of Representatives by Congressman Henry Cuellar who has served on several committees since being elected to office in 2005. In the Texas Senate, Eagle Pass is represented by Senator Judith Zaffirini who has been involved in numerous legislative debates concerning education, transportation, and health care since her election in 1993. Eagle Pass also has a mayor-council form of government that consists of seven City Council members elected by district and a mayor who is chosen at large. The Mayor and City council members serve four-year terms. Furthermore, it holds elections for county commissioners, school board trustees, justices of the peace, and other countywide officers every two years. As such, residents have numerous opportunities to engage with their local politics through voting or volunteering for local campaigns.
The political climate in Zip 78852 (Eagle Pass, TX) is somewhat liberal.
Maverick County, TX is somewhat liberal. In Maverick County, TX 54.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Maverick county remained moderately Democratic, 54.3% to 44.8%.
Maverick county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 78852 (Eagle Pass, TX) is somewhat liberal.
Eagle Pass, Texas is somewhat liberal.
Maverick County, Texas is somewhat liberal.
Eagle Pass Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Eagle Pass, 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 78852 (Eagle Pass)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 219 contributions totaling $47,181 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $215 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 71 contributions totaling $100,136 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,410 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)