Runge, TX is located in Karnes County, which is part of the larger San Antonio–New Braunfels metropolitan area. Runge has an estimated population of 1,850 people, with its local politics mainly influenced by the county-level representatives. The people of Runge are represented at the Karnes County Court House by two commissioners, one Judge, and other officials elected from each precinct. During elections, voters in Runge have the opportunity to pick their local candidates for offices such as state and federal legislators, county judge, justices of the peace and school board trustees. These elected officials work hard to ensure that their constituents’ voices are heard on issues that affect them directly like public safety and infrastructure development. The town also has an active political environment where citizens can get involved through attending city council meetings or campaigning for a candidate they believe in.
The political climate in Zip 78151 (Runge, TX) is strongly conservative.
Karnes County, TX is very conservative. In Karnes County, TX 23.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 75.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Karnes county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.6% to 23.5%.
Karnes county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 78151 (Runge, TX) is strongly conservative.
Runge, Texas is strongly conservative.
Karnes 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.
Runge, 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 78151 (Runge)
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 41 contributions totaling $5,122 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $125 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)