Rowlett, TX is a city located within Dallas County in the state of Texas with a population of 58,838 according to the 2020 United States Census. The local government consists of an elected mayor and council members who serve four-year terms that are staggered every two years. The current mayor is Tammy Dana-Bashian and the five members on the City Council are Richard Fregoe, Dave Gossett, Bethany Huffman, Stephen McGee, and Shane Stacks. Together they work to provide effective leadership in order for Rowlett to remain an attractive place to live and work. They focus their efforts on creating economic development opportunities while keeping taxes low as well as developing infrastructure projects and ensuring public safety. In addition, they strive to maintain quality parks and recreation facilities in order to ensure community engagement and promote healthy lifestyles. Through these efforts Rowlett has earned a reputation as one of the most desirable places to live in the Metroplex area.
The political climate in Zip 75089 (Rowlett, TX) is somewhat liberal.
Dallas County, TX is strongly liberal. In Dallas County, TX 64.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 33.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dallas county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.9% to 33.3%.
Dallas county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 75089 (Rowlett, TX) is somewhat liberal.
Rowlett, Texas is somewhat liberal.
Dallas County, Texas is strongly liberal.
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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.
Rowlett, 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 75089 (Rowlett)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,052 contributions totaling $66,886 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $64 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 164 contributions totaling $24,153 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $147 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)