Houston, Texas is a vibrant city that is home to the 77031 zip code. Politically, the area is represented at the Federal level by members of both major political parties. Currently, Sheila Jackson Lee serves as the Democratic representative for the 18th Congressional District, which includes 77031 Houston. At the state level, Carol Alvarado represents the 145th District in the Texas Senate and Ana Hernandez represents House District 143 in Texas. Both representatives are Democrats.
Locally, voters in 77031 Houston are served by various elected officials at both City Council and Harris County levels. The city councilmember representing this district is Dwight Boykins while Rodney Ellis serves on Harris County Commissioners Court and Robert Eckels is a member of Harris County Board of Education Trustees representing Precinct 4. In addition to these local representatives, there are also many community-based organizations that engage with local constituents to advocate for issues important to them such as education funding and public safety.
The political climate in Zip 77031 (Houston, TX) is somewhat liberal.
Harris County, TX is somewhat liberal. In Harris County, TX 55.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Harris county remained strongly Democratic, 55.9% to 42.7%.
Harris county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 77031 (Houston, TX) is somewhat liberal.
Houston, Texas is somewhat liberal.
Harris County, Texas is somewhat liberal.
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land 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.
Houston, 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 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 77031 (Houston)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 472 contributions totaling $31,001 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $66 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 123 contributions totaling $36,060 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $293 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)