St. Pete Beach, FL is a small beach side community located in Pinellas County, Florida. With its close proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay, St. Pete Beach is a popular destination for tourists and residents alike. Despite its small size, St. Pete Beach has an active political climate with several organizations that are engaged in local politics and policy-making. The St. Pete Beach City Commission is responsible for the governance of city matters, which includes regulating zoning ordinances, setting property taxes and fees, implementing development plans and managing civic services such as police, fire protection and public works projects. Additionally, many non-profit organizations are dedicated to advocating for issues such as environmental protection, transportation improvements and economic development. Local political candidates focus on addressing the needs of the St. Pete Beach community while also engaging with surrounding communities throughout the region. This commitment to collaboration brings together diverse perspectives to create substantial progress towards solutions that benefit all residents of St. Pete Beach as well as other areas in Pinellas County and beyond.
The political climate in St. Pete Beach, FL is leaning conservative.
Pinellas County, FL is leaning liberal. In Pinellas County, FL 49.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 49.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pinellas county flipped narrowly Democratic, 49.4% to 49.2%.
Pinellas county flipped Democratic in most recent Presidential election (2016 and 2004 went Republican).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
St. Pete Beach, FL is leaning conservative.
Pinellas County, Florida is leaning liberal.
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metro Area is leaning conservative.
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.
St. Pete Beach, Florida: d r d d r 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 St. Pete Beach, FL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,228 contributions totaling $444,061 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $85 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,487 contributions totaling $1,382,343 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $930 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)