Joaquin, Texas is a small town with a population of around 1,200 people located in Shelby County. This rural community is governed by a mayor-council form of government where the citizens elect five members to serve on the town council and one mayor. The town council is responsible for creating and overseeing local policies that affect the community. They also have authority over the budget process, and are responsible for maintaining Joaquin’s infrastructure. The people of Joaquin are passionate about their local politics. Every election cycle brings out strong candidates competing for office, each with different ideas about how to best serve the people of Joaquin. The political landscape in Joaquin is always changing as new ideas are introduced and old ones are questioned.
The political climate in Zip 75954 (Joaquin, TX) is very conservative.
Shelby County, TX is very conservative. In Shelby County, TX 20.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Shelby county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.1% to 20.5%.
Shelby county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 75954 (Joaquin, TX) is very conservative.
Joaquin, Texas is very conservative.
Shelby County, Texas is very conservative.
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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.
Joaquin, Texas: R R R R R R
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 75954 (Joaquin)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4 contributions totaling $609 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $152 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 36 contributions totaling $50,333 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,398 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)