Bonner County, Idaho is a vibrant community with diverse political views. The county is governed locally by the Bonner County Commission and its five elected officials who work to ensure that their constituents' needs are met. The Commission meets monthly and reviews local ordinances, discusses issues facing the county, and makes decisions on how the county should move forward. In addition to the county commission, there are various other elected officials in Bonner County including mayors of cities within the county, sheriffs, and justices of the peace. During election season, local residents have an opportunity to get to know each candidate before casting their vote for the best candidate. Elections bring out passionate debates on important topics such as education, healthcare, taxes, transportation and more. Local political candidates strive to inform their constituents of the issues facing Bonner County in order to ensure that they can make an informed choice when electing their representatives.
The political climate in Bonner County, ID is very conservative.
In Bonner County, ID 30.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 67.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bonner county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 67.2% to 30.4%.
Bonner county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bonner County, ID is very conservative.
Sandpoint Metro Area is very conservative.
Idaho is strongly 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.
Bonner, Idaho: R R R R R R
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 Bonner County, ID
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,696 contributions totaling $253,019 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $68 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 911 contributions totaling $421,163 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $462 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)