The city of Tyler, TX with the zip code 75704 is located in Smith County. It has a strong sense of community and is home to many local businesses, schools, and government offices. The city government consists of a mayor-council type system with Mayor Martin Heines as the current head. He works closely with members of the City Council including Deputy Mayor Jeff McKinnon, Councilwoman Mandy McAnally, and more. The City Council meets regularly to discuss local issues and make decisions that affect the citizens of Tyler. Tyler also features an array of local political candidates running for office in this upcoming election season. These candidates work hard to represent their constituents’ interests in matters such as taxes, public safety, infrastructure development and other important issues affecting our community.
The political climate in Zip 75704 (Tyler, TX) is strongly conservative.
Smith County, TX is very conservative. In Smith County, TX 29.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 68.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Smith county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 68.9% to 29.5%.
Smith county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 75704 (Tyler, TX) is strongly conservative.
Tyler, Texas is strongly conservative.
Smith County, Texas is very conservative.
Tyler 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.
Tyler, 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 75704 (Tyler)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 148 contributions totaling $7,153 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $48 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 51 contributions totaling $6,843 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $134 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)