El Paso is located in El Paso County, TX and is part of the 23rd Congressional District of Texas. The city is represented by Congressman Veronica Escobar, who was elected in 2018. She has worked to ensure that El Pasoans are represented fairly in Congress and she works to support legislation to benefit the people of El Paso. She advocates for policies such as immigration reform, economic development, and health care access. Additionally, there are several local officials that are representing El Paso at the state level including Representatives Joe Moody and César Blanco as well as Senator José Rodríguez. All three of these individuals work together to ensure that El Pasoans have their interests and needs heard by their state government.
The political climate in Zip 79938 (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 79938 (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 79938 (El Paso)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 546 contributions totaling $77,566 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $142 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 117 contributions totaling $70,622 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $604 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)