Lake County, Colorado is home to a vibrant political landscape. As part of this landscape, there are numerous local political candidates running for various offices in the county. Every election season, these local candidates campaign on their ideas about how to best serve the people of Lake County and improve the quality of life here. Issues like job creation, economic development, education reform and environmental protection are just some of the topics that local candidates address when campaigning for office. The candidates offer different perspectives and solutions to these issues and often have passionate debates during election season. Ultimately, it’s up to the people of Lake County to decide who will represent them in office by casting their vote for the candidate they believe will best serve their needs.
The political climate in Lake County, CO is moderately liberal.
In Lake County, CO 58.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 37.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 4.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lake county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 58.1% to 37.8%.
Lake county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lake County, CO is moderately liberal.
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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.
Lake, Colorado: 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 Lake County, CO
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 304 contributions totaling $17,737 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $58 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 55 contributions totaling $5,558 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $101 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)