The city of Lackland AFB, TX has a population of 2,000 and is home to the 37th Training Wing at Joint Base San Antonio. Political representation for Lackland is provided by the Bexar County Commissioners’ Court, as it falls within their jurisdiction. U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro represents Lackland in Congress, while Senator Ted Cruz and Senator John Cornyn are its Texas representatives in the U.S. Senate. The mayor of Lackland is Gayla Brumit, who was elected to a two-year term in 2018 and re-elected in 2020. Other local offices include city council members Rick Kirschner and Robert Perales, who were also elected in 2018 and 2020 respectively. The residents of Lackland are able to have their voices heard through their voting behavior and participation in city politics events such as town hall meetings.
The political climate in Zip 78236 (Lackland AFB, TX) is moderately 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
Zip 78236 (Lackland AFB, TX) is moderately liberal.
Lackland AFB, Texas is moderately 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.
Lackland AFB, 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 78236 (Lackland AFB)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 34 contributions totaling $649 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $19 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)