Bremerton, Washington is a city of about 39,000 people located in Kitsap County on the Kitsap Peninsula. The city is home to many diverse and vibrant neighborhoods, each with its own unique character and charm. Bremerton is also known for its strong sense of civic pride and involvement by its citizens. In recent years, the city has seen an increase in voter participation and local political candidates vying for office. Bremerton has a strong mayoral-council form of government with the mayor being elected by popular vote every four years. The current Mayor, Greg Wheeler, was first elected in 2017 and is up for re-election this year. He will be joined on the ballot by challenger Mary Pirrello who was also recently elected to the City Council in 2019. There are also several other local races up for election including City Council members, Auditor, Treasurer and City Attorney positions. Voters in Bremerton will have a wide range of choices when they go to the polls this November.
The political climate in Bremerton, WA is somewhat liberal.
Kitsap County, WA is moderately liberal. In Kitsap County, WA 56.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 38.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 4.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Kitsap county remained very strongly Democratic, 56.9% to 38.8%.
Kitsap county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bremerton, WA is somewhat liberal.
Kitsap County, Washington is moderately liberal.
Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard Metro Area is moderately 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.
Bremerton, 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 Bremerton, WA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11,785 contributions totaling $460,525 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $39 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,247 contributions totaling $237,281 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $106 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)