The city of Sugar Land, TX is governed by an elected mayor and six council members who all serve four-year terms. The City Council is responsible for setting policy, approving budgets, managing growth, and creating a vibrant civic life for 77478 residents. Sugar Land citizens have the opportunity to participate in regular public meetings at City Hall and voice their opinions on local issues. The current Mayor is Joe Zimmerman and the current council members are Harish Jajoo, Himesh Gandhi, Carolyn Evans-Shabazz, Amy Mitchell, Michael Schiff, and Sylvia Pacheco. Each member brings a unique perspective to the table to help shape the future of Sugar Land. With a growing population of over 90,000 people and diverse industries such as technology and engineering located in the area, there is always an interesting conversation happening about what’s going on in the city politically.
The political climate in Zip 77478 (Sugar Land, TX) is leaning liberal.
Fort Bend County, TX is somewhat liberal. In Fort Bend County, TX 54.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Fort Bend county remained strongly Democratic, 54.6% to 44.0%.
Fort Bend county voted Democratic in 2020 and 2016, after voting Republican in the previous four elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 77478 (Sugar Land, TX) is leaning liberal.
Sugar Land, Texas is leaning liberal.
Fort Bend County, Texas is somewhat liberal.
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land 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.
Sugar Land, Texas: R R r r 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 77478 (Sugar Land)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,375 contributions totaling $339,568 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $101 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,151 contributions totaling $435,104 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $378 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)