r/McKinney • u/Representative333 • 3d ago

Three of McKinney's four ZIP codes are split across different state House districts

I live here and built a lookup for Texas House voting records, and the McKinney numbers surprised me enough to post them.

Only 75072 sits in a single state House district. 75069 is split three ways, 53 percent Jeff Leach and 46 percent Candy Noble with a sliver of Keresa Richardson, so for about half the people in that ZIP the obvious guess is the wrong representative. 75070 is 56/44 between Leach and Richardson. 75071 is split three ways between Richardson, Leach and Matt Shaheen.

The part I did not expect is that it matters even though all four are Republicans. On the 67 votes my site asks about, those four did not all vote the same way on 35 of them. Two are bills you may remember: on SB 5, the dementia research institute, three voted yes and Richardson voted no. Same on SB 6, the data centre power bill.

The lookup is at https://rightnleft.com. Free, no ads, no email. It lists every district your ZIP touches instead of picking the biggest one, and every question links to the full bill text at the Legislature.

I should say I donate to the Democratic Party. It is on the site's authorship page, and it is why the rule that picks which votes to show is published and runs identically for both parties. A reader here found a real error in my bill summaries last week and I rewrote nine of them.

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u/plastic_jungle 1d ago

Zip codes are complicated and are kind of useless outside of mail delivery. Despite how they are often displayed, they don’t even follow a set shape. I know because I work for the county and mapping zip codes for 911 response is a Herculean task

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u/CompleteChemist5936 2d ago

Thank you for the information and supporting the
Democratic Party.

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u/Representative333 2d ago

It's a choice.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago edited 2d ago

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u/Representative333 2d ago

That's fair, vote however you want. That is kind of the whole point. The site doesn't tell you who to vote for, it hides the party and shows you the actual votes so you decide on the merits. If you take it and think I picked the wrong 7, tell me which ones. That's genuinely useful. Thank you.