Garland, TX is a vibrant and diverse community located in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. Politically, the city is represented by a Mayor and City Council elected by its residents. The Mayor of Garland is Scott LeMay and the City Council consists of seven members representing individual wards throughout the city. Each member serves staggered terms that last four years. The current council members are Becky Anderson, Darlene Williams, Bijan Mohari, Rich Aubin, Tim Campbell, Robert John & Scott LeMay. Local politics in Garland are centered around issues that are important to its citizens such as public safety, economic development, infrastructure upgrades and providing quality services for its residents. The Mayor and council work together to ensure that all voices in the community can be heard and that solutions are crafted to address everyday needs in an effort to make Garland a great place to live for everyone who calls it home.
The political climate in Zip 75041 (Garland, TX) is strongly liberal.
Dallas County, TX is strongly liberal. In Dallas County, TX 64.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 33.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dallas county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.9% to 33.3%.
Dallas county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 75041 (Garland, TX) is strongly liberal.
Garland, Texas is strongly liberal.
Dallas County, Texas is strongly liberal.
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington Metro Area is leaning 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.
Garland, Texas: r r 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 75041 (Garland)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 148 contributions totaling $88,380 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $597 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 94 contributions totaling $11,680 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $124 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)