The town of Wabasso, FL is part of Indian River County, which is governed by a five-member Board of County Commissioners. The commissioners are elected from five single-member districts based on population. The current chair of the Board is Joe Flescher and the other members are Bob Solari, Susan Adams, Peter O'Bryan and Tim Zorc. Indian River County also has a county administrator and an attorney who help guide the county's operations. Wabasso does not have any local political candidates or elected officials as it is too small to have its own municipal government. Despite this fact, Wabasso residents can still participate in politics at the county level by voting in elections for the Board of County Commissioners or running for one of the five commissioner seats themselves.
The political climate in Zip 32970 (Wabasso, FL) is moderately conservative.
Indian River County, FL is moderately conservative. In Indian River County, FL 38.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Indian River county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.2% to 38.7%.
Indian River county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 32970 (Wabasso, FL) is moderately conservative.
Wabasso, Florida is moderately conservative.
Indian River County, Florida is moderately conservative.
Sebastian-Vero Beach Metro Area is moderately 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.
Wabasso, 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 32970 (Wabasso)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5 contributions totaling $445 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $89 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 35 contributions totaling $7,261 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $207 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)