Yuma County, Colorado is located in the eastern plains of Colorado and is home to a population of approximately 10,000 people. The county is served by a three-member board of county commissioners that are elected at large for four-year terms. These local politicians are responsible for setting the county budget, allocating funds for various programs, and appointing officers to oversee county operations. In addition to the commissioners, there are a number of other political offices in the county including representatives from the state legislature and local representatives for Congress. Elections for these offices are held every two years with different candidates running for office each election cycle. As a result, Yuma County residents have an important role to play in selecting their political leaders and working with them to enact policies that benefit their community.
The political climate in Yuma County, CO is very conservative.
In Yuma County, CO 15.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 82.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Yuma county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 82.5% to 15.8%.
Yuma county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Yuma County, CO is very conservative.
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Colorado is somewhat 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.
Yuma, Colorado: 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 Yuma County, CO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 716 contributions totaling $18,429 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $26 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 161 contributions totaling $24,582 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $153 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)