Politics in 77004 Houston, TX are dominated by the Democratic Party, with local elected officials leaning heavily to the left. The two main political figures within the zip code are Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and State Senator Carol Alvarado. Jackson Lee is a Democrat representing Texas’s 18th Congressional District whom has been in office since 1995 and is known for her work in criminal justice reform as well as her advocacy for civil rights. Alvarado is a Democrat who serves Texas’s 6th District and was first elected to the state senate in 2018. She has focused on issues of healthcare, education, transportation, and economic development. Both Alvarado and Jackson Lee champion policies that promote increased access to opportunity for all of their constituents regardless of background or wealth status.
The political climate in Zip 77004 (Houston, TX) is moderately liberal.
Harris County, TX is somewhat liberal. In Harris County, TX 55.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Harris county remained strongly Democratic, 55.9% to 42.7%.
Harris county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 77004 (Houston, TX) is moderately liberal.
Houston, Texas is moderately liberal.
Harris County, Texas is somewhat liberal.
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land 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.
Houston, 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 77004 (Houston)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,489 contributions totaling $539,838 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $155 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 456 contributions totaling $261,472 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $573 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)