The politics in the 78249 San Antonio, TX area are centered around the state legislature and US Congress representatives that have been elected to serve this district. Among them is State Representative Barbara Gervin-Hawkins, who was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1994. She is joined by six other members of the Texas House of Representatives, including Chris Fails, Trey Martinez Fischer, Roland Gutierrez, Leah Tinnon, Ray Lopez, and Diego Bernal. US Congressman Henry Cuellar represents San Antonio at the federal level and serves as a voice for constituents in Washington D.C., advocating for issues such as health care reform and access to economic opportunity. The local community actively engages with their state and federal representatives to ensure their voices are heard on important matters that affect residents throughout San Antonio.
The political climate in Zip 78249 (San Antonio, TX) is somewhat 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 78249 (San Antonio, TX) is somewhat liberal.
San Antonio, Texas is somewhat 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 78249 (San Antonio)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,819 contributions totaling $198,242 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $109 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 865 contributions totaling $1,765,858 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $2,041 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)