Coconino County, Arizona is one of the 15 counties located in the Grand Canyon State. It is home to a diverse population that includes Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo-American inhabitants. The county seat is Flagstaff, with other towns including Sedona and Williams. Coconino has been run by the same two political parties since its formation in 1891 - the Republicans and the Democrats. The current Board of Supervisors consists of five members from each party, who work together to make decisions about investing resources and developing policies that best serve the citizens of Coconino County. Each Supervisor also serves on multiple committees which coordinate local government operations and community services within their district. Local politics in Coconino are generally centered around issues such as job growth, infrastructure investments, public safety, environmental protection laws, education reform, health care initiatives, tax policy and land use regulations. As a result of this focus on quality-of-life issues, Coconino County has consistently achieved above-average rankings for economic prosperity among all Arizona counties.
The political climate in Coconino County, AZ is strongly liberal.
In Coconino County, AZ 60.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Coconino county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 60.7% to 36.7%.
Coconino county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Coconino County, AZ is strongly liberal.
Flagstaff Metro Area is strongly liberal.
Arizona is leaning 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.
Coconino, Arizona: 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Coconino County, AZ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 9,371 contributions totaling $804,832 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $86 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,001 contributions totaling $585,918 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $585 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)