The politics in 78261 San Antonio, TX are heavily influenced by local government officials and policies. The area is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by State Representative Diego Bernal who serves as District 123 representative. At the national level, the district is served by U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro, who represents District 20 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Additionally, the state-level Senators representing 78261 are Senator Jose Rodriguez and Senator Jane Nelson. At the county level, 78261 is represented by Bexar County Commissioner Kevin Wolff and numerous other local officials elected to serve in various capacities throughout Bexar County government. The issues that affect this community include transportation, economic development, education, public safety, and health care for residents among many others. Local political candidates are running for office to represent these issues on the federal, state, and county levels and all citizens of 78261 San Antonio have a say in their future through elections for these representatives every year.
The political climate in Zip 78261 (San Antonio, 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
Zip 78261 (San Antonio, TX) is leaning liberal.
San Antonio, Texas 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.
San Antonio, 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 78261 (San Antonio)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,074 contributions totaling $54,916 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $51 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 422 contributions totaling $92,145 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $218 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)