The politics in 85711 Tucson, AZ are heavily influenced by the Democratic Party. The city is part of Arizona's 2nd Congressional District and it is represented by Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick. On a local level, the city has a Mayor and City Council who are elected every four years. The City Council consists of six members who are elected from geographic districts within the city while the Mayor is elected at large. All of these local politicians run under various party affiliations which reflects the Democratic leaning majority in the area. Despite this, there have been some Republican candidates that have been successful in election cycles as well.
The political climate in Zip 85711 (Tucson, AZ) is somewhat liberal.
Pima County, AZ is moderately liberal. In Pima County, AZ 58.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pima county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.4% to 39.8%.
Pima county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 85711 (Tucson, AZ) is somewhat liberal.
Tucson, Arizona is somewhat liberal.
Pima County, Arizona is moderately liberal.
Tucson Metro Area is moderately 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.
Tucson, Arizona: d d d d D 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 85711 (Tucson)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,866 contributions totaling $326,830 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $56 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 536 contributions totaling $337,568 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $630 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)