Buckeye, AZ is a small community located in the West Valley of Maricopa County. Despite its size, Buckeye has a strong presence in local politics. The city is represented in the Arizona State House by Republican Reginald Bolding and in the Arizona State Senate by Republican Sine Kerr. The city also elects three members to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, each representing different districts within Buckeye. The current board members include Denny Barney, Bill Gates and Steve Chucri. Furthermore, Buckeye residents are part of the 1st Congressional District represented by Democrat Tom O’Halleran in the US House of Representatives. All of these representatives strive to remain active and involved in their respective communities to ensure that Buckeye stays a safe and prosperous place to live.
The political climate in Buckeye, AZ is leaning conservative.
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
Buckeye, AZ is leaning conservative.
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.
Buckeye, 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 Buckeye, AZ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,408 contributions totaling $357,994 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $66 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,841 contributions totaling $784,234 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $276 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)