The city of Waco, TX is located in McLennan County and is the county seat. In terms of politics, it follows a largely conservative approach with Republican leaning voters. In 2019, the mayor and all six city council members of Waco were elected to serve four-year terms. The mayor and three of the council members are Republicans while the other three are independent candidates. While there are no local political candidates for this area, many citizens take part in state-wide elections to influence state legislature decisions impacting their community. Overall, Waco has a long history of voting conservatively and is committed to upholding traditional values in its political affairs.
The political climate in Zip 76798 (Waco, TX) is leaning conservative.
McLennan County, TX is moderately conservative. In McLennan County, TX 37.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, McLennan county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.8% to 37.5%.
McLennan county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 76798 (Waco, TX) is leaning conservative.
Waco, Texas is leaning conservative.
McLennan County, Texas is moderately conservative.
Waco Metro Area is strongly 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.
Waco, 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 76798 (Waco)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3 contributions totaling $9 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $3 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 16 contributions totaling $9,450 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $591 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)