San Tan Valley, AZ is located in Pinal County and is considered a suburb of Phoenix. The area is represented in state legislature by Senator Tyler Pace who serves as the Senate Majority Whip, and Representatives Jeff Weninger and T.J Shope who serve on numerous committees. At the local level, San Tan Valley residents are served by the Pinal County Board of Supervisors, with representatives from Districts 1-5. The area also has its own mayor, Mayor Gail Barney who was elected in 2018. The politics of San Tan Valley are largely reflective of Arizona’s overall political makeup as a majority Republican state. Residents focus on issues that affect their quality of life such as education and economic development. Political discourse here is friendly and welcoming to people from all walks of life, regardless of party affiliation or beliefs.
The political climate in Zip 85140 (San Tan Valley, AZ) is somewhat conservative.
Pinal County, AZ is moderately conservative. In Pinal County, AZ 40.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 57.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pinal county remained very strongly Republican, 57.7% to 40.5%.
Pinal county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 85140 (San Tan Valley, AZ) is somewhat conservative.
San Tan Valley, Arizona is somewhat conservative.
Pinal County, Arizona is moderately conservative.
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler Metro Area is leaning 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.
San Tan Valley, 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 zip 85140 (San Tan Valley)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 252 contributions totaling $9,837 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $39 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 344 contributions totaling $34,242 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)