Pine, CO is a small mountain town located in Clear Creek County. With a population of just over 1,000 people, it is a tight-knit community that values the importance of local politics. The town has an elected mayor and four trustees who work together to make decisions on behalf of the citizens of Pine. There are also numerous grassroot campaigns and political organizations which strive to bring awareness to important issues such as education funding, economic development, and environmental protection. All these efforts culminate in the election where citizens of Pine select their leaders for the coming term and have their voices heard on all levels of government.
The political climate in Zip 80470 (Pine, CO) is leaning liberal.
Jefferson County, CO is moderately liberal. In Jefferson County, CO 57.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Jefferson county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.9% to 39.3%.
Jefferson county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 80470 (Pine, CO) is leaning liberal.
Pine, Colorado is leaning liberal.
Jefferson County, Colorado is moderately liberal.
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood Metro Area is strongly liberal.
Colorado is somewhat 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.
Pine, Colorado: r r 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 80470 (Pine)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 544 contributions totaling $27,869 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $51 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 87 contributions totaling $10,066 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $116 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)