El Mirage, AZ is a small city located in the north-west corner of Maricopa County. It's population is estimated to be around 36,000 people. El Mirage has a City Council that governs the area and makes decisions regarding local policies and ordinances. The Mayor serves as the leader of the City Council and is responsible for setting its agenda. The City Council members are elected officials who serve four-year terms and are responsible for representing their constituents on matters of policy and legislation. El Mirage also has two representatives in Arizona’s State Legislature, one Senator and one Representative. These individuals are elected by the residents of El Mirage to represent them at the state level on matters such as taxes, education reform, public safety, healthcare, infrastructure improvements, and more. The residents of El Mirage can get involved in politics by attending City Council meetings or voting in local elections for their preferred candidate.
The political climate in El Mirage, AZ is leaning liberal.
Maricopa County, AZ is leaning liberal. In Maricopa County, AZ 50.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 48.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Maricopa county flipped narrowly Democratic, 50.1% to 48.0%.
Maricopa county flipped Democratic after voting Republican in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
El Mirage, AZ is leaning liberal.
Maricopa County, Arizona is leaning liberal.
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler Metro Area is leaning 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.
El Mirage, Arizona: R R R R 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 El Mirage, AZ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,037 contributions totaling $58,595 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $57 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 223 contributions totaling $43,090 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $193 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)