El Paso, Texas is a vibrant city located in the southwestern part of the state. The local politics in El Paso revolves around issues such as education, infrastructure growth, economic development and public safety. The city is represented at the state level by Congressmen Henry Cuellar, Veronica Escobar, and John Cornyn. El Paso's mayor is Dee Margo who was elected in June 2017 and serves a four-year term. The City Council consists of eight members who are elected from their respective districts every four years. Public discussion on political topics can be seen at monthly City Council meetings held throughout El Paso, as well as town hall meetings organized to discuss specific topics of interests for residents and visitors alike.
The political climate in Zip 79930 (El Paso, TX) is strongly liberal.
El Paso County, TX is very liberal. In El Paso County, TX 66.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 31.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, El Paso county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 66.7% to 31.6%.
El Paso county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 79930 (El Paso, TX) is strongly liberal.
El Paso, Texas is strongly liberal.
El Paso County, Texas is very liberal.
El Paso Metro Area is very 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.
El Paso, 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 79930 (El Paso)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 418 contributions totaling $65,684 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $157 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 52 contributions totaling $6,600 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $127 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)