Riviera Beach, FL is a coastal city located in Palm Beach County with a population of approximately 34,000. The city is governed by an elected Mayor and City Council who are responsible for making laws and policies that govern the city. Currently, Mayor Thomas Masters serves as the leader of Riviera Beach. The current members of the City Council include Paula Bruce, KaShamba Miller-Anderson, Michael Brown, Terence Davis, Joe Peduzzi III and Julie Botel. Each year residents have the opportunity to vote on who will serve and make decisions on behalf of their community. Issues important to Riviera Beach residents include economic development, public safety initiatives, environmental protection efforts and public infrastructure improvements. As a coastal town that relies heavily on its marine resources for tourism, recreational activities and commercial fishing businesses, the City Council has been very active in supporting these industries while protecting them from potentially destructive forces such as climate change and overfishing.
The political climate in Riviera Beach, FL is somewhat liberal.
Palm Beach County, FL is somewhat liberal. In Palm Beach County, FL 56.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 43.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Palm Beach county remained strongly Democratic, 56.0% to 43.2%.
Palm Beach county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Riviera Beach, FL is somewhat liberal.
Palm Beach County, Florida is somewhat liberal.
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Florida is leaning 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.
Riviera Beach, Florida: 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 Riviera Beach, FL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 13,877 contributions totaling $5,121,722 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $369 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 4,328 contributions totaling $3,652,906 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $844 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)