Alamo Heights is a small city in Texas located just outside of San Antonio. The city has a long history of being politically active and engaged with its citizens. In recent years, the city has focused on fiscal responsibility, efficient management, and economic development to ensure a bright future for all. Local issues such as education, public safety, transportation, and infrastructure are regularly discussed and debated in council meetings held throughout the year. Political candidates running for local offices often have similar views on these issues but differ in their approaches to solving them. Residents of Alamo Heights can expect to be engaged in the political process by getting out and voting in local elections or attending city council meetings to voice their opinions on important matters affecting their community.
The political climate in Alamo Heights, TX is leaning liberal.
Bexar County, TX is moderately liberal. In Bexar County, TX 58.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 40.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bexar county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.2% to 40.1%.
Bexar county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Alamo Heights, TX is leaning liberal.
Bexar County, Texas is moderately liberal.
San Antonio-New Braunfels Metro Area is leaning liberal.
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.
Alamo Heights, Texas: r R d d D D
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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Alamo Heights, TX
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 9,479 contributions totaling $1,564,881 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $165 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,827 contributions totaling $3,092,739 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $808 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)