Sierra Vista, AZ 85635 is a small city located in the southeastern part of Arizona. The city is governed by a mayor-council form of government, with an elected mayor representing the executive branch and seven elected council members who represent the legislative branch. The current Mayor is Rick Mueller and the City Council consists of Ruben Ortega, Mary Garcia, Homer Peralta, Alan Waugh, Jack Smith, Joe Dominguez and Ted Brown. Together they work to manage the day to day operations of the city as well as plan for its future growth and development. In addition to local politics, Sierra Vista is also represented at the county level in Cochise County by five Supervisors who serve as representatives for their districts.
The political climate in Zip 85635 (Sierra Vista, AZ) is somewhat conservative.
Cochise County, AZ is moderately conservative. In Cochise County, AZ 39.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 58.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cochise county remained very strongly Republican, 58.6% to 39.1%.
Cochise county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 85635 (Sierra Vista, AZ) is somewhat conservative.
Sierra Vista, Arizona is somewhat conservative.
Cochise County, Arizona is moderately conservative.
Sierra Vista-Douglas Metro Area is moderately conservative.
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.
Sierra Vista, Arizona: 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 zip 85635 (Sierra Vista)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 940 contributions totaling $78,023 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $83 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 764 contributions totaling $113,431 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $148 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)