The city of Yakima, WA is governed by a mayor-council form of government. The Yakima City Council consists of seven members, each elected from the different wards in the city. The mayor is directly elected by the citizens and serves as the presiding officer of the council. The City Council is responsible for setting policy, enacting legislation, and appropriating funds. They also oversee the various departments in the city's government, ensuring that they are providing services to citizens efficiently and effectively. Additionally, the City Council holds public meetings to hear citizen concerns and consider ideas on how to move forward with effective solutions. Yakima has experienced great success in recent years under this system of local government and remains committed to providing quality leadership and services for its citizens.
The political climate in Yakima, WA is leaning liberal.
Yakima County, WA is leaning conservative. In Yakima County, WA 44.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 52.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Yakima county remained moderately Republican, 52.6% to 44.9%.
Yakima county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Yakima, WA is leaning liberal.
Yakima County, Washington is leaning conservative.
Yakima Metro Area is leaning conservative.
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.
Yakima, Washington: 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 Yakima, WA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,824 contributions totaling $249,038 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $65 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,016 contributions totaling $467,486 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $232 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)