Glenwood Springs, Colorado is a great place to live, offering stunning scenery in the Rocky Mountains and a close-knit community of residents. Politically, the 81601 zip code is part of Garfield County and is represented by state senator Bob Rankin and house representatives Barbara McLachlan and Millie Hamner. The county also includes county commissioners John Martin, Tom Jankovsky, and Alex Beinstein. All three of these public officials are working together to ensure that Glenwood Springs has excellent infrastructure, educational opportunities, safe and healthy communities, access to natural resources, and jobs for its citizens. The residents of Glenwood Springs are proud of their local politicians who actively work to represent their interests in both state government and at the local level.
The political climate in Zip 81601 (Glenwood Springs, CO) is leaning liberal.
Garfield County, CO is leaning liberal. In Garfield County, CO 49.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 47.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Garfield county flipped narrowly Democratic, 49.9% to 47.6%.
Garfield county flipped Democratic after voting Republican in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 81601 (Glenwood Springs, CO) is leaning liberal.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado is leaning liberal.
Garfield County, Colorado is leaning liberal.
Glenwood Springs Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
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.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado: R r r r r 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 zip 81601 (Glenwood Springs)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,155 contributions totaling $99,570 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $46 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 209 contributions totaling $155,662 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $745 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)