The city of Wichita Falls, TX is located in the state of Texas and has a population of approximately 104,553 people according to 2019 estimates. Politically, Wichita Falls is part of Texas' 13th Congressional District and is represented by Ron Wright in the U.S. House of Representatives. At the local level, Wichita Falls is governed by a five-member city council with four members elected from single-member districts and one mayor elected at large. The current mayor is Stephen Santellana, who was sworn into office on June 19th, 2017 and will serve until 2021. The current city council members are: Charles Lee Bryant (District 1), Tim Ingle (District 2), Jeremy Fly (District 3), Kevin Hunter (District 4) and Michael Smith (At Large). The city government works together to come up with policies that are beneficial for both residents and businesses in Wichita Falls.
The political climate in Zip 76310 (Wichita Falls, TX) is strongly conservative.
Wichita County, TX is very conservative. In Wichita County, TX 28.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 69.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Wichita county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 69.7% to 28.6%.
Wichita county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 76310 (Wichita Falls, TX) is strongly conservative.
Wichita Falls, Texas is strongly conservative.
Wichita County, Texas is very conservative.
Wichita Falls 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.
Wichita Falls, 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 76310 (Wichita Falls)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 288 contributions totaling $9,346 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $32 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 359 contributions totaling $54,877 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $153 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)