Bay Pines, FL is a small town located on the West Coast of Florida. It is a primarily residential area but boasts beautiful scenery and an easy access to the Gulf of Mexico. The local politics in Bay Pines are centered around community-building initiatives and improvements to civic infrastructure. The City Council is responsible for creating laws, budgets and ordinances that ensure the safety, security and sustainability of the town. Local candidates running in elections typically focus on issues such as tax reform, unemployment rates, environmental protection and other important topics that affect daily life in Bay Pines. Elections are held every two years, with all citizens having the right to vote for their preferred candidate.
The political climate in Bay Pines, FL is leaning liberal.
Pinellas County, FL is leaning liberal. In Pinellas County, FL 49.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 49.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pinellas county flipped narrowly Democratic, 49.4% to 49.2%.
Pinellas county flipped Democratic in most recent Presidential election (2016 and 2004 went Republican).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bay Pines, FL is leaning liberal.
Pinellas County, Florida is leaning liberal.
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metro Area is leaning conservative.
Florida 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.
Bay Pines, Florida: d r d d r 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Bay Pines, FL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,474 contributions totaling $261,479 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $106 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 780 contributions totaling $180,709 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $232 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)