Houston, TX 77339 is located in Harris County and is part of the Houston metropolitan area. This area is governed by a Mayor-Council system with the current Mayor being Sylvester Turner. The City Council consists of sixteen members who represent the city’s different districts and each elected councilmember serves two year terms. Harris County also has a Commissioners Court which is made up of four county commissioners who work to provide services and support for local residents. In addition to these elected officials, the area also has representatives in Congress, including Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and Congressman Al Green, both from Texas’s 9th district. Together, these elected officials work hard to ensure that 77339 has all the resources and amenities it needs to keep its citizens safe and prosperous.
The political climate in Zip 77339 (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 77339 (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 77339 (Houston)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,605 contributions totaling $130,044 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $81 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,640 contributions totaling $625,623 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $381 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)