The small town of Tatum, Texas is located in Rusk County and is home to a population of around 750 people. When it comes to politics, the residents of Tatum tend to lean conservatively with a majority being registered Republicans. In terms of local political candidates, there have been few recent elections for local offices in Tatum. The last election which was held was for mayor back in 2017, where Maybelle Boyd won the position with a landslide victory. Despite the political divisions that are seen nationally, Tatum has remained peaceful and the residents have a strong sense of community that transcends their political differences.
The political climate in Zip 75691 (Tatum, TX) is strongly conservative.
Rusk County, TX is very conservative. In Rusk County, TX 21.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 77.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Rusk county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 77.3% to 21.7%.
Rusk county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 75691 (Tatum, TX) is strongly conservative.
Tatum, Texas is strongly conservative.
Rusk County, Texas is very conservative.
Longview Metro Area is very conservative.
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.
Tatum, Texas: R R R R R R
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 75691 (Tatum)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 8 contributions totaling $230 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $29 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 30 contributions totaling $50,380 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,679 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)