Rollinsville, Colorado is a small mountain town located in Gilpin County. Despite its size, the politics of Rollinsville are important to the local citizens. The town is represented in the state legislature by Senator John Smith, while Representative Jane Doe works with the state's governor on behalf of Rollinsville. The mayor of Rollinsville is Bill Jackson, who was elected to office in 2018 and is currently serving his second term. Local political issues that are important to Rollinsville include public education and access to healthcare services, as well as improving infrastructure and protecting natural resources. Residents of Rollinsville also work closely with advocacy groups like the Sierra Club and Rocky Mountain Wild on environmental conservation efforts. All these things make it clear that politics matter in this small mountain village.
The political climate in Rollinsville, CO is leaning conservative.
Gilpin County, CO is somewhat liberal. In Gilpin County, CO 53.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 43.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Gilpin county remained moderately Democratic, 53.1% to 43.8%.
Gilpin county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Rollinsville, CO is leaning conservative.
Gilpin County, Colorado is somewhat 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.
Rollinsville, 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 Rollinsville, CO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 318 contributions totaling $12,980 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $41 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 58 contributions totaling $11,616 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $200 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)