Gold Bar, WA is a small city located in Snohomish County. The city has been governed by Mayor Lee Grumman since 2010. The mayor works closely with the City Council, which consists of four members who are elected for three-year terms. The city council is responsible for passing ordinances and resolutions that relate to the administration of local government. Additionally, the mayor appoints members to various boards and commissions to ensure that the people of Gold Bar have a voice in their local government. The political climate in Gold Bar is generally welcoming and open to new ideas and initiatives from its residents.
The political climate in Gold Bar, WA is leaning liberal.
Snohomish County, WA is moderately liberal. In Snohomish County, WA 58.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 37.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Snohomish county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 58.5% to 37.9%.
Snohomish county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Gold Bar, WA is leaning liberal.
Snohomish County, Washington is moderately liberal.
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue Metro Area is very liberal.
Washington is moderately 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.
Gold Bar, Washington: 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 Gold Bar, WA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 180 contributions totaling $8,381 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $47 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 118 contributions totaling $18,345 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $155 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)