Garden City, Idaho is located in the heart of Ada County and is home to a population of approximately 10,500 people. Politically, the city is part of the state’s District 16A and is represented by Republican Colt Skalsky in the Idaho House of Representatives. In addition, Garden City residents are represented by Republican Jim Rice in the Idaho Senate. On a county level, Garden City lies within Commission District 2 and is represented by Diana Lachiondo. The city also has a mayor elected directly from its own constituents. The current mayor is John Evans, who was first elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2019 for his second term as mayor. Garden City residents have access to numerous options when it comes to local politics, from voting for local representatives to participating in town hall meetings or community forums. This allows citizens to voice their opinions on important issues that affect their community and help shape Garden City's future.
The political climate in Zip 83714 (Garden City, ID) is leaning conservative.
Ada County, ID is leaning conservative. In Ada County, ID 46.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ada county remained Republican, 50.0% to 46.1%.
Ada county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 83714 (Garden City, ID) is leaning conservative.
Garden City, Idaho is leaning conservative.
Ada County, Idaho is leaning conservative.
Boise City Metro Area is moderately conservative.
Idaho is strongly 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.
Garden City, Idaho: 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 83714 (Garden City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 9,104 contributions totaling $129,888 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $14 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 490 contributions totaling $72,995 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $149 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)