The 78208 area of San Antonio, TX is in a unique political position. It is part of the Bexar County District 4 and covered by the Texas Senate District 19 and Texas House District 117. The current Bexar County Commissioner for District 4 is Tommy Calvert. Representing 78208 in the Texas Senate is Senator Pete Flores and standing for Texas House of Representatives from 78208 is Barbara Gervin-Hawkins. Both have worked hard to improve the area with investments in infrastructure, funding for necessary services, and other initiatives that benefit residents there. They have also worked to ensure that all citizens’ rights are protected under the law regardless of race or gender. It's clear that these representatives are committed to making positive changes in their community, and it's something that they should be proud of doing for the people living there.
The political climate in Zip 78208 (San Antonio, TX) is moderately 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 78208 (San Antonio, TX) is moderately liberal.
San Antonio, Texas is moderately 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 78208 (San Antonio)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 24 contributions totaling $1,779 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $74 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 23 contributions totaling $1,674 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $73 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)