The small town of Benavides, TX with a population of just over 1,000 is a tight-knit community that takes politics seriously. Located in Duval County, local residents vote in elections for the county's state representatives and senator. Benavides citizens are also deeply involved in local politics and regularly elect three councilmen to represent their interests at the municipal level. These councilmen often help to shape policy related to infrastructure, zoning regulations, water rights, and other issues important to the city. Additionally, members of the community can also run for mayor or place on the mayoral election ballot. This allows the people of Benavides to have a direct say in how their city is managed and administered.
The political climate in Zip 78341 (Benavides, TX) is leaning liberal.
Duval County, TX is leaning liberal. In Duval County, TX 51.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 48.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Duval county remained Democratic, 51.0% to 48.3%.
Duval county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 78341 (Benavides, TX) is leaning liberal.
Benavides, Texas is leaning liberal.
Duval County, Texas is leaning liberal.
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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.
Benavides, Texas: D D 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 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 78341 (Benavides)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 16 contributions totaling $2,921 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $183 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1 contributions totaling $500 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $500 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)