Garland, UT is a small city in Utah County that has a population of about 3,500 people. The town is governed by the Mayor and four City Council Members who are elected to four-year terms. All policy and legislative authority resides with the City Council. The Mayor presides over City Council meetings and has administrative responsibility for all municipal departments. The City Council sets policy for the community, enacts ordinances, appoints advisory boards, adopts an annual budget, and maintains city infrastructure such as streets and sidewalks. The Mayor works closely with the City Administrator to ensure that Garland City operates smoothly and efficiently. In recent years, there has been significant development within the city limits which makes this an exciting time to be involved in local politics. As Garland grows so does its political presence with more local candidates emerging every year to represent their constituents’ interests in their community.
The political climate in Garland, UT is strongly conservative.
Box Elder County, UT is very conservative. In Box Elder County, UT 16.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 4.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Box Elder county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.9% to 16.4%.
Box Elder county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Garland, UT is strongly conservative.
Box Elder County, Utah is very conservative.
Ogden-Clearfield Metro Area is strongly conservative.
Utah is moderately conservative.
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.
Garland, Utah: 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 Garland, UT
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 40 contributions totaling $2,179 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $54 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 50 contributions totaling $11,955 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $239 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)