North Puyallup, WA is a small city located in Pierce County and is part of the larger Tacoma metropolitan area. Local government in North Puyallup is administered by mayor and six-member city council. The mayor is elected at large to a four-year term while the six council members are elected from three wards for two-year terms. The City Council meets on the first and third Mondays of each month to discuss local policy matters including infrastructure, development, public safety and budgets. All positions are nonpartisan. North Puyallup residents have a chance to participate in local politics by voting in their precinct's elections as well as attending City Council meetings or voicing their opinions on various issues affecting the community.
The political climate in North Puyallup, WA is leaning liberal.
Pierce County, WA is somewhat liberal. In Pierce County, WA 53.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pierce county remained strongly Democratic, 53.8% to 42.6%.
Pierce county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
North Puyallup, WA is leaning liberal.
Pierce County, Washington is somewhat 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.
North Puyallup, 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 North Puyallup, WA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,324 contributions totaling $152,319 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $115 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 364 contributions totaling $66,514 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $183 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)