The city of Tucson, Arizona is located in Pima County and has a population of around 545,000. It has a mayor-council government structure with a mayor as the chief executive and seven council members. The mayor is elected by the whole city while each council member is elected to represent one of seven wards within the city. In 2020, Regina Romero was elected as the first female Hispanic Mayor of Tucson. There are two main political parties in Tucson: The Democratic Party and The Republican Party. Both parties strive to provide an equal voice for their constituents, although they have different views on many issues. The two parties contribute to lively debates about topics such as education reform, gun control, immigration policy, and tax reform. Ultimately, it is up to each individual voter to decide which candidate best represents their values and beliefs in order to make a difference in Tucson’s local politics.
The political climate in Zip 85710 (Tucson, AZ) is somewhat 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
Zip 85710 (Tucson, AZ) is somewhat liberal.
Tucson, Arizona is somewhat 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.
Tucson, 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 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 85710 (Tucson)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,974 contributions totaling $243,686 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $61 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 899 contributions totaling $98,543 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $110 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)