Grand Prairie, TX is a vibrant city located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with a population of over 180,000 residents. Politically, the city is served by a mayor and seven members of the City Council who are elected to serve at-large. The current Mayor of Grand Prairie is Ron Jensen, and the City Council consists of Mark Dyer, Pauline Medrano, Steve Ogden, Malcolm Clark, Eric Williams, Robert Smith and Charlie England. All Grand Prairie residents are encouraged to participate in local politics and become familiar with the candidates running for office each election cycle. Elections for Mayor and City Council positions are held regularly throughout the year on Election Day. Residents can keep up with their local elected officials by attending council meetings or reading about their activities in local newspapers. By staying informed about political issues in Grand Prairie, citizens can help ensure that their community remains a great place to live and work.
The political climate in Zip 75050 (Grand Prairie, 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 75050 (Grand Prairie, TX) is strongly liberal.
Grand Prairie, 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.
Grand Prairie, 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 75050 (Grand Prairie)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 527 contributions totaling $28,895 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $55 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 274 contributions totaling $1,118,159 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $4,081 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)