East Port Orchard, WA, is a small town located on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state. The local politics in East Port Orchard are centered around the East Port Orchard City Council, an elected body of officials that serve as the legislative authority for the city. The council is responsible for setting local laws and regulations, creating budgets, and managing public services including libraries, parks, police departments and fire stations. The members of the council are voted into office by citizens of East Port Orchard every two years. They are committed to representing the needs and interests of their constituents while also striving to ensure overall community growth and development.
The political climate in East Port Orchard, 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
East Port Orchard, 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.
East Port Orchard, 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 East Port Orchard, WA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,103 contributions totaling $66,755 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $61 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 500 contributions totaling $45,820 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $92 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)