Fort Worth, TX is a great place to live with plenty of opportunities for political involvement. Located in Tarrant County, Fort Worth is governed by the city council, which consists of nine members elected from seven districts by all registered voters in the city. The mayor and mayor pro tem serve two-year terms and are elected at-large. Additionally, the City of Fort Worth also serves as one of 17 different districts within Texas' 33rd Congressional district which is currently represented by Republican Congressman Marc Veasey. Locally, politicians such as Betsy Price currently serve as Mayor and Kelly Allen Gray serves as City Councilwoman in District 8. With such a variety of political roles to fill and many engaged citizens, Fort Worth offers amazing chances for people to get involved in politics.
The political climate in Zip 76244 (Fort Worth, TX) is leaning conservative.
Tarrant County, TX is leaning liberal. In Tarrant County, TX 49.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 49.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Tarrant county flipped narrowly Democratic, 49.3% to 49.1%.
Tarrant county flipped Democratic after voting Republican in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 76244 (Fort Worth, TX) is leaning conservative.
Fort Worth, Texas is leaning conservative.
Tarrant County, Texas is leaning liberal.
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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.
Fort Worth, Texas: R R R R r 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 76244 (Fort Worth)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,091 contributions totaling $61,417 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $56 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 699 contributions totaling $108,971 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $156 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)