Located in Gold Canyon, Arizona, 85118 is a suburban community with a population of approximately 10,000 people. Its residents are politically engaged and actively participate in local elections and initiatives. In the past few years, many candidates have put forth their ideas for how to make the town better. These goals involve keeping taxes low, improving public safety, creating jobs and supporting local businesses. Residents also regularly come out in large numbers to voice their opinions on important issues that arise each election season. It is clear that the people of 85118 take pride in their town and want to ensure its success by voting in every election and engaging in political discussions. The upcoming local election cycle promises to be an exciting one as new candidates vie for office and put forth new ideas.
The political climate in Zip 85118 (Gold Canyon, 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 85118 (Gold Canyon, AZ) is somewhat conservative.
Gold Canyon, 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.
Gold Canyon, 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 85118 (Gold Canyon)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,768 contributions totaling $153,839 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $87 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 465 contributions totaling $86,840 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $187 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)