Editing Plano, Texas (section)

==Government==
{{See also|List of mayors of Plano, Texas}}

===Local government===
[[File:Plano October 2015 37 (Municipal Center).jpg|thumb|The Municipal Center in October 2015]]

Plano has a [[council-manager government|council-manager form of government]], with a part-time city council that sets city policy and a city manager responsible for city operations. The [[Plano City Council]] has eight members elected on a nonpartisan basis in staggered odd-year elections every other May. Council members and the mayor are elected by and serve the city at large. Council members serving in places one, two, three, and four must reside in that district, and the mayor always serves in place six. The mayor receives a yearly stipend of $8,400, and each council member receives $6,000.

All council members, including the mayor, serve a maximum of two consecutive four-year terms.<ref name="CityCouncil" /> The mayor and city council members could serve for a maximum of three consecutive three-year terms until voters approved changes to the city charter in 2011.<ref name="Terms" />

Mark Israelson has served as city manager of the city of Plano since May 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.plano.gov/1317/City-Manager-Mark-Israelson|title=City Manager Mark Israelson &#124; Plano, TX - Official Website|website=www.plano.gov}}</ref>

The 38th [[List of mayors of Plano, Texas|mayor of Plano]] was businessman [[Harry LaRosiliere]], who was elected the first African-American mayor of Plano in 2013.<ref name="LaRosiliere" /> Plano elected its first African-American city council member, David Perry, in 1990.<ref name="DavidPerry" />

On December 8, 2014, the [[city council]] passed an amendment to its [[civil rights]] act to include [[LGBT rights in Texas#Municipal laws|sexual orientation and gender identity]] as protected.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ford |first=Zack |title=Plano, Texas Passes LGBT Nondiscrimination Protections Despite Vocal Opposition |url=http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/12/09/3601067/plano-lgbt-protections/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409053409/http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/12/09/3601067/plano-lgbt-protections/ |archive-date=April 9, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hundley |first=Wendy |url=http://planoblog.dallasnews.com/2014/12/plano-approves-controversial-equal-rights-policy.html/ |title=Plano approves controversial Equal Rights Policy |date=December 9, 2014 |access-date=December 9, 2014 |newspaper=Dallas Morning News |archive-date=December 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210000922/http://planoblog.dallasnews.com/2014/12/plano-approves-controversial-equal-rights-policy.html/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The ordinance drew the ire of conservative groups such as the Liberty Institute, which argued that it infringed on business owners' religious rights.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Opponents of Plano's LGBT policy say petition drive successful |website=Thescoopblog.dallasnews.com |url=http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/opponents-of-planos-lgbt-policy-say-petition-drive-successful.html/ |archive-date=February 4, 2015 |access-date=April 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204005812/http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/opponents-of-planos-lgbt-policy-say-petition-drive-successful.html/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Many civil rights organizations were not supportive either, such as the Human Rights Campaign, which argued that the policy's exclusion of transgender individuals from being able to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity rendered the ordinance not worth defending.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 23, 2015 |title=HRC Unlikely to Defend Plano Nondiscrimination Ordinance |url=http://www.texasobserver.org/human-rights-campaign-unlikely-to-defend-transphobic-plano-nondiscrimination-ordinance/ |access-date=April 7, 2015 |website=Texasobserver.org}}</ref>

In the 2008 fiscal year [[Comprehensive Annual Financial Report]], Plano reported $194 million in revenue, $212 million in expenditures, $278 million in total assets, $31.4 million in total liabilities, and $337 million in cash and investments.<ref name="CAFR2008" />

Plano is a voluntary member of the [[North Central Texas Council of Governments]] association, the purpose of which is to coordinate individual and collective local governments and facilitate regional solutions, eliminate unnecessary duplication, and enable joint decisions.

In 2020, Police Chief Ed Drain announced the Plano Police Department would no longer make arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana.<ref>{{cite news |title=Plano police will no longer make arrests for small amounts of marijuana |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2021/04/02/plano-police-will-no-longer-make-arrests-for-small-amounts-of-marijuana/ |access-date=November 10, 2022 |publisher=Dallas Morning News |date=April 2, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

===Politics===
Dallas's wealthy northern suburbs were solidly [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], and in 2005, the Bay Area Center for Voting Research ranked Plano, the largest of them, the United States' fifth-most conservative city.<ref>[http://americancityandcounty.com/content/study-ranks-americas-most-liberal-and-conservative-cities Bay Area Center for Voting Research] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701060037/http://americancityandcounty.com/content/study-ranks-americas-most-liberal-and-conservative-cities |date=July 1, 2014 }} Retrieved January 7, 2014.</ref> It has recently become more competitive in national elections as its population has diversified, shifting toward the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] since 2016, when [[Donald Trump]] won the city by a narrow margin. In [[2018 United States Senate election in Texas|2018]], [[Beto O'Rourke]] became the first Democrat to win the city in a statewide election in the 21st century, and in [[2020 United States presidential election in Texas|2020]], [[Joe Biden]] won the city by an even larger margin. But in local and state elections, Plano still leans Republican, voting to reelect Governor [[Greg Abbott]] in [[2018 Texas gubernatorial election|2018]] and narrowly reelecting Republicans to the [[Texas House of Representatives]] and [[Texas Senate]] in [[2018 Texas Senate election|2018]] and [[2020 Texas House of Representatives election|2020]].
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{| class="wikitable" style="float:center; margin:1em; font-size:95%;"
|+Plano city vote by party in presidential elections<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Election Results |url=https://www.collincountytx.gov/elections/election_results/Pages/result_archive.aspx |access-date=May 30, 2021 |website=Collincountytx.gov |language=en |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524214410/https://www.collincountytx.gov/elections/election_results/Pages/result_archive.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Denton County, TX Elections |url=https://www.votedenton.gov/election-results/#PastElections|access-date=May 30, 2021 |website=Votedenton.gov}}</ref>
!Year
![[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
![[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
![[Third party (United States)|Third Parties]]
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |[[2020 United States presidential election in Texas|2020]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''53.50%''' ''72,736''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |44.75% ''60,840''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.76% ''2,389''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2016 United States presidential election in Texas|2016]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |45.31% ''49,522''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''50.12%''' ''54,784''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |4.56% ''4,988''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2012 United States presidential election in Texas|2012]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |37.44% ''37,435''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''60.74%''' ''60,733''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.82% ''1,817''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2008 United States presidential election in Texas|2008]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |39.70% ''42,441''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''59.11%''' ''63,193''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.19% ''1,280''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2004 United States presidential election in Texas|2004]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |31.07% ''30,387''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''68.06%''' ''66,562''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |0.87% ''852''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2000 United States presidential election in Texas|2000]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |25.65% ''20,888''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''71.78%''' ''58,447''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |2.57% ''2,093''
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="float:center; margin:1em; font-size:95%;"
|+Plano city vote by party in Class I Senate elections<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
!Year
![[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
![[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
![[Third party (United States)|Third Parties]]
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |[[2018 United States Senate election in Texas|2018]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''52.35%''' ''55,804''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |46.85% ''49,941''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |0.81% ''859''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2012 United States Senate election in Texas|2012]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |36.94% ''35,813''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''60.01%''' ''58,183''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |3.06% ''2,963''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2006 United States Senate election in Texas|2006]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |28.75% ''15,040''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''68.91%''' ''36,047''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |2.34% ''1,225''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2000 United States Senate election in Texas|2000]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |18.22% ''14,634''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''79.29%''' ''63,674''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |2.49% ''1,999''
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="float:center; margin:1em; font-size:95%;"
|+Plano city vote by party in Class II Senate elections<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
!Year
![[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
![[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
![[Third party (United States)|Third Parties]]
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2020 United States Senate election in Texas|2020]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |48.86% ''65,024''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''48.87%''' ''65,039''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |2.26% ''3,013''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2014 United States Senate election in Texas|2014]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |31.65% ''18,134''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''64.63%''' ''37,028''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |3.72% ''2,131''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2008 United States Senate election in Texas|2008]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |35.79% ''36,916''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''61.81%''' ''63,753''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |2.40% ''2,480''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2002 United States Senate election in Texas|2002]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |30.55% ''17,156''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''68.45%''' ''38,441''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.01% ''566''
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="float:center; margin:1em; font-size:95%;"
|+Plano city vote by party in gubernatorial elections<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
!Year
![[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
![[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
![[Third party (United States)|Third Parties]]
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |[[2022 Texas gubernatorial election|2022]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''50.92%''' ''48,773''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |47.66% ''45,617''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.42% ''1,360''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2018 Texas gubernatorial election|2018]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |44.43% ''46,993''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''53.67%''' ''56,757''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.90% ''2,008''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2014 Texas gubernatorial election|2014]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |37.03% ''21,331''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''61.57%''' ''35,461''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.72% ''991''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2010 Texas gubernatorial election|2010]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |35.62% ''18,992''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''61.71%''' ''32,904''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |2.67% ''1,427''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2006 Texas gubernatorial election|2006]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |26.11% ''13,828''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''47.15%''' ''24,970''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |26.74% ''14,164''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2002 Texas gubernatorial election|2002]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |25.07% ''14,294''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''73.52%''' ''41,910''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.93% ''1,102''
|}

===State representation===
Plano is split between the [[Texas's 33rd House of Representatives district|33rd]], [[Texas's 65th House of Representatives district|65th]], [[Texas's 66th House of Representatives district|66th]], [[Texas's 67th House of Representatives district|67th]], [[Texas's 70th House of Representatives district|70th]], and [[Texas's 89th House of Representatives district|89th]] Districts in the [[Texas House of Representatives]]. The part of Plano in Collin County is wholly contained in [[Texas Senate, District 8]], while the Denton County portion is in [[Texas Senate, District 30]].

[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Justin Holland (politician)|Justin Holland]] represents Texas House District 33, Republican [[Kronda Thimesch]] represents Texas House District 65, Republican [[Matt Shaheen]] represents Texas House District 66, Republican [[Jeff Leach (politician)|Jeff Leach]] has represented Texas House District 67 since 2013, [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Mihaela Plesa]] represents Texas House District 70, and Republican [[Candy Noble]] represents Texas House District 89. Republican [[Angela Paxton]] represents Texas Senate District 8 and Republican [[Drew Springer]] represents Texas Senate District 30.

===Federal representation===
Plano is split between Texas's [[Texas's 3rd congressional district|3rd]], [[Texas's 4th congressional district|4th]], [[Texas's 26th congressional district|26th]], and [[Texas's 32nd congressional district|32nd]] congressional districts, represented by Republicans [[Keith Self]], [[Pat Fallon]], and [[Brandon Gill]], and Democrat [[Julie Johnson (politician)|Julie Johnson]] respectively. Plano is represented in the [[United States Senate]] by Republicans [[Ted Cruz]] and [[John Cornyn]].