The city of Sun City, AZ is a vibrant community in Maricopa County with many active residents. Located just 15 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix, the community lives by the motto \"A Great Place to Live.\" Politically, Sun City is a conservative-leaning area with an electorate that frequently votes for Republican candidates in local and national elections. In recent years, Republican politicians such as Martha McSally have had strong support from Sun City voters. There are also several local organizations dedicated to preserving the city's conservative values. Sun City has become well known for its political engagement and proud spirit of patriotism.
The political climate in Zip 85373 (Sun City, 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 85373 (Sun City, AZ) is leaning conservative.
Sun City, 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.
Sun City, 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 85373 (Sun City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,953 contributions totaling $36,188 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $6 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 780 contributions totaling $40,354 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $52 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)