Gila County, Arizona is a small county located in the heart of the state. It has an estimated population of 53,000 people and covers an area of 4,795 square miles. Politically Gila County tends to lean towards the conservative side with an emphasis on fiscal responsibility and smaller government. The local government is run by a board of supervisors elected from five different districts throughout the county. These supervisors work together to make decisions about how public funds are spent and what policy measures need to be implemented in order to benefit all constituents of Gila County. Currently there are no major political issues or candidates running for office in Gila County as most elections have already been decided this year. However, local politics still plays a role in shaping the future of this rural county and residents can still choose to get involved by attending meetings or voting in upcoming elections.
The political climate in Gila County, AZ is very conservative.
In Gila County, AZ 32.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 66.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Gila county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 66.3% to 32.2%.
Gila county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Gila County, AZ is very conservative.
Payson Metro Area is very conservative.
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.
Gila, Arizona: 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 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 Gila County, AZ
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,108 contributions totaling $91,397 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $82 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,052 contributions totaling $352,144 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $335 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)