The politics in 75501 Texarkana, TX are diverse and ever-changing. The city is located in Bowie County, and the residents of the area have a variety of political views. While there are no local candidates representing 75501 Texarkana, TX in national elections, the county's representative in Congress is Republican Representative Louie Gohmert. Additionally, the county and city governments tend to be led by conservative candidates from both major parties. As far as state representation goes, Senator Bryan Hughes represents District 1 in Austin while Representative Gary VanDeaver represents District 1 in the House of Representatives. Ultimately, those living in 75501 Texarkana, TX will find a wide range of political ideologies during any given election season.
The political climate in Zip 75501 (Texarkana, TX) is strongly conservative.
Bowie County, TX is very conservative. In Bowie County, TX 28.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bowie county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.9% to 28.1%.
Bowie county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 75501 (Texarkana, TX) is strongly conservative.
Texarkana, Texas is strongly conservative.
Bowie County, Texas is very conservative.
Texarkana 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.
Texarkana, 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 75501 (Texarkana)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 196 contributions totaling $14,008 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $71 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 252 contributions totaling $86,049 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $341 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)