Oro Valley, Arizona is a vibrant town located in the heart of the Sonoran Desert. Politically, the city is part of Pima County and is represented by two state senators, three state representatives, one county supervisor and several county justices. At the local level, Oro Valley has its own mayor-council form of government with seven council members elected by citizens every four years. These members work hard to ensure that the community remains prosperous and safe while striving to maintain a high quality of life for all residents. Throughout their terms, council members focus on issues that affect Oro Valley including economic development, public safety, infrastructure maintenance and improvement, parks and recreation programs, public works projects and more. They also strive to maintain a strong partnership with neighboring communities as well as regional partners like Tucson and Marana.
The political climate in Oro Valley, AZ is leaning liberal.
Pima County, AZ is moderately liberal. In Pima County, AZ 58.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pima county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.4% to 39.8%.
Pima county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Oro Valley, AZ is leaning liberal.
Pima County, Arizona is moderately liberal.
Tucson Metro Area is moderately liberal.
Arizona is leaning liberal.
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.
Oro Valley, Arizona: d d 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 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 Oro Valley, AZ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 33,060 contributions totaling $3,317,098 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 7,441 contributions totaling $2,574,555 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $346 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)