Rochester, Texas is located in Lubbock County and is home to 79544 residents. It is a small rural area served by the New Deal Independent School District. The Town of Rochester holds its elections on the first Saturday in May, with the Mayor and City Council serving two-year terms. Currently, the Mayor is Eddie Gilliam and the council members are George Scholl, Sean Seibert, Christopher Smith, Bobbie Watson, and Vicki Wieringa. The city seeks to provide its residents with a high quality of life and works to foster economic development while preserving its small-town charm. They have tackled projects such as water line extensions, housing improvements, street repairs, drainage systems upgrades, and park improvements. The city also remains committed to providing services such as police protection, ambulance service, fire protection, animal control services and garbage pickup. With these projects and services in place, Rochester has been able to maintain a safe community for all who live there.
The political climate in Zip 79544 (Rochester, TX) is strongly conservative.
Haskell County, TX is very conservative. In Haskell County, TX 15.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 83.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Haskell county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 83.1% to 15.9%.
Haskell county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 79544 (Rochester, TX) is strongly conservative.
Rochester, Texas is strongly conservative.
Haskell 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.
Rochester, 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 79544 (Rochester)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)