Goodyear, Arizona is a city located in Maricopa County and is home to 85,395 people as of 2019. The city was established in 1985 and has since become an evolving suburban community. Goodyear offers its citizens a safe and comfortable lifestyle with excellent amenities. The city is governed by a mayor-council government system, where the mayor serves as the chief executive officer of the city and the council members are elected by residents to represent their interests and ensure that their voices are heard. The current mayor of Goodyear is Georgia Lord, who has been in office since 2018. The council consists of seven members: Vice Mayor Joe Pizzillo, Councilmembers Wally Campbell, Sheri Heiney, Norma Flickinger, Vicki Hunt, Joe Perez and Jakob La Fond. All members of City Council are dedicated to serving the citizens of Goodyear and ensuring that all their needs are met efficiently. They work hard to ensure that policies are implemented that strive for excellence for all residents while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
The political climate in Zip 85395 (Goodyear, AZ) is leaning conservative.
Maricopa County, AZ is leaning liberal. In Maricopa County, AZ 50.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 48.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Maricopa county flipped narrowly Democratic, 50.1% to 48.0%.
Maricopa county flipped Democratic after voting Republican in the previous five Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 85395 (Goodyear, AZ) is leaning conservative.
Goodyear, Arizona is leaning conservative.
Maricopa County, Arizona is leaning liberal.
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.
Goodyear, Arizona: 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 85395 (Goodyear)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,756 contributions totaling $74,984 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $43 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 634 contributions totaling $78,426 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $124 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)