Federal Heights, Colorado is a small city located within Adams County. The city is governed by a mayor-council form of government, and the current mayor is Dede Cook. Federal Heights provides its residents with a full range of services including public health, safety, leisure activities and more. The city also offers multiple public parks, trails, playgrounds and recreation centers for recreation and leisure activities. Local politics in Federal Heights are fairly non-partisan in nature, with most elected officials focusing on issues that will benefit the greater community as opposed to any one particular party or individual. Public policy decisions are made through collective dialogue between the mayor and council members, with input from citizens as well. In this way, Federal Heights is committed to providing its citizens with an open and collaborative environment for decision making that ensures their voices are heard in the process.
The political climate in Federal Heights, CO is moderately liberal.
Adams County, CO is moderately liberal. In Adams County, CO 56.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 40.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Adams county remained very strongly Democratic, 56.7% to 40.4%.
Adams county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Federal Heights, CO is moderately liberal.
Adams County, Colorado is moderately liberal.
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood Metro Area is strongly 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.
Federal Heights, Colorado: d 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 Federal Heights, CO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,022 contributions totaling $125,850 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $62 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 427 contributions totaling $49,206 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $115 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)