Politics in the 34236 Sarasota, FL area are dominated by the Republican party. The current congressional representative for this district is Vern Buchanan who was elected to his sixth term in 2018. On the local level, Sarasota County Commission District 3 is currently represented by Charles Hines, a Republican who was re-elected in 2020. In the State Senate, Joe Gruters serves as the Senator for District 23, and Liz Alpert serves as the Representative for House District 69 which encompasses parts of Sarasota County. All three politicians are Republicans. Voters in this area generally align with conservative views and favor candidates from their own party when it comes to election time.
The political climate in Zip 34236 (Sarasota, FL) is leaning conservative.
Sarasota County, FL is somewhat conservative. In Sarasota County, FL 44.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 54.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sarasota county remained strongly Republican, 54.7% to 44.3%.
Sarasota county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 34236 (Sarasota, FL) is leaning conservative.
Sarasota, Florida is leaning conservative.
Sarasota County, Florida is somewhat conservative.
North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
Florida is leaning conservative.
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.
Sarasota, Florida: 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 34236 (Sarasota)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 8,495 contributions totaling $1,626,037 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $191 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,197 contributions totaling $2,316,195 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,935 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)