Durango, Colorado is a vibrant city located in the southwestern corner of the state. It is known for its beauty and outdoor recreation opportunities, but it is also a major hub for politics. The City of Durango holds regular elections for local government offices including mayor, city council members, and municipal judges. Each year, these offices are hotly contested as locals strive to ensure that their voices are heard and their interests represented in local decisions. In addition to voting in these elections, residents of Durango have the ability to contact their representatives to voice their opinions on important matters such as taxes, infrastructure improvements, and public safety issues. This active engagement with local politics helps ensure that the citizens of Durango feel empowered in the political process.
The political climate in Durango, CO is somewhat liberal.
La Plata County, CO is moderately liberal. In La Plata County, CO 57.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, La Plata county remained very strongly Democratic, 57.6% to 39.9%.
La Plata county voted Democratic in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Republican in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Durango, CO is somewhat liberal.
La Plata County, Colorado is moderately liberal.
Durango Metro Area is moderately liberal.
Colorado is somewhat 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.
Durango, Colorado: R 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 Durango, CO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 6,476 contributions totaling $595,800 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $92 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 668 contributions totaling $135,759 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $203 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)