The politics in 78263 San Antonio, TX are vibrant and diverse. The 78263 area is a part of Bexar County, which has many prominent politicians that represent the city at the state and national levels. These representatives include Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar. At the state level, Bexar County is represented by Republican State Senator José Menéndez and Democratic State Representative Roland Gutierrez. Locally, the 78263 district is part of Council District 4, which is represented by Rey Saldaña on San Antonio City Council. While there are no local political candidates specifically representing the 78263 district itself, these city, state and national representatives work hard to ensure that the concerns of all citizens in the area are heard and addressed in their roles as elected officials.
The political climate in Zip 78263 (San Antonio, TX) is leaning liberal.
Bexar County, TX is moderately liberal. In Bexar County, TX 58.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 40.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bexar county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.2% to 40.1%.
Bexar county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 78263 (San Antonio, TX) is leaning liberal.
San Antonio, Texas is leaning liberal.
Bexar County, Texas is moderately liberal.
San Antonio-New Braunfels 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.
San Antonio, 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 78263 (San Antonio)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 80 contributions totaling $5,082 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $64 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 55 contributions totaling $7,195 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $131 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)