The Yuma, AZ Metro Area is an important hub for politics and civic engagement in Arizona. The city of Yuma sits at the center of a larger metropolitan area that includes the cities of San Luis, Somerton, and Wellton as well as several unincorporated areas. While there are no major political candidates from the Yuma area running in statewide or national elections, local county and municipal elections are highly competitive. County-level officials such as supervisors, judges, and school board members are elected by the people of Yuma County to represent their interests on important issues like public safety, infrastructure investment, and economic growth. At the municipal level, mayors and city council members from each of the towns in Yuma’s metro area serve four-year terms. They tackle local issues like zoning laws, road maintenance, and water rights disputes. There is also an active League of Women Voters chapter in Yuma that works to engage citizens in local government affairs through educational forums and voter registration drives. Overall, politics in the Yuma Metro Area is an important part of life for those who live there.
The political climate in Yuma Metro Area is leaning conservative.
In Yuma Metro Area 46.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 52.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Yuma metro area remained moderately Republican, 52.1% to 46.0%.
The Yuma metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Yuma Metro Area is leaning 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.
Yuma, 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Yuma Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,072 contributions totaling $320,605 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $155 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,729 contributions totaling $383,749 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $222 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)