Florence, Arizona is a small town located in Pinal County. It is home to just over 25,000 people and is part of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Politically, Florence is represented by Mayor Thomas J. Rankin and its town council members, which include Council Member Jaime Ayala, Council Member Chad Deaver, Council Member Michael Cowan, Council Member Kelly Bontz and Vice Mayor Andrew Morris. The town's government takes an active role in the community with events like the annual Fireworks Show and Music Festival as well as taking a stance on issues such as infrastructure improvements. In recent years Florence has focused on updating existing infrastructure such as roads and sidewalks while increasing public safety measures like security cameras and police presence. Politically, residents are split between Republican and Democratic leanings but most agree that keeping taxes low while still providing services for the citizens is the best course of action for the town's success.
The political climate in Florence, AZ is somewhat conservative.
Pinal County, AZ is moderately conservative. In Pinal County, AZ 40.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 57.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pinal county remained very strongly Republican, 57.7% to 40.5%.
Pinal county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Florence, AZ is somewhat conservative.
Pinal County, Arizona is moderately conservative.
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.
Florence, Arizona: r R R R R R
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 Florence, AZ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 604 contributions totaling $28,362 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $47 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 339 contributions totaling $62,701 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $185 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)