Houston, TX is located in the 77062 zip code, and it has a rich political history. The city is currently represented by several representatives from different parties in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Texas Legislature. On the federal level, this includes Representative Al Green from the Democratic Party, who represents most of Houston's inner core districts; Representative Lizzie Fletcher from the Democratic Party who represents much of Houston's western suburbs; and Representative Peter Olson from the Republican Party who represents parts of Southeast Harris County. In addition to these officials, there are many other local politicians from various parties that serve in important positions at both state and municipal levels. These include mayors, judges, members of boards and commissions, school board trustees, and more. In all, Houstonians have a wide variety of candidates representing their interests at all levels of government.
The political climate in Zip 77062 (Houston, TX) is leaning 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 77062 (Houston, TX) is leaning liberal.
Houston, Texas is leaning 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 77062 (Houston)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,587 contributions totaling $281,400 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $78 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 899 contributions totaling $101,536 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $113 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)