The politics in 78023 San Antonio, TX, are heavily influenced by the local and state government. The area is represented at a federal level by Joaquín Castro, an American Democratic politician who currently serves as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 20th congressional district since 2013. At the state level, the area is represented by Roland Gutierrez of the Democratic Party, who serves as a member of the Texas Senate representing District 19 since 2017. At the county level, Commissioner Tommy Calvert Jr., also of the Democratic Party, sits on commissioners court to represent Precinct 4 on Bexar County Court since 2015. Locally, 78023 falls within District 6 of San Antonio City Council which is currently represented by Melissa Cabello Havrda, a Democrat who has served as councilwoman since 2017.
The political climate in Zip 78023 (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 78023 (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 78023 (San Antonio)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,203 contributions totaling $129,104 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $107 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 794 contributions totaling $781,397 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $984 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)