Colorado Springs is the second largest city in Colorado, located in El Paso County. Politically, the city is very active and has a wide range of local political candidates representing a variety of parties. At the federal level, Colorado Springs is represented by several members of Congress from both major parties. On the state level, there are two representatives from El Paso County who serve on both the State House and Senate, also from both major parties. Additionally, there are several non-partisan positions such as school board members and other county commissioners elected to represent El Paso County. Locally, Colorado Springs has numerous mayors and city council members that serve their respective districts. All these local politicians take part in decisions that affect the local community and create policies for residents to follow.
The political climate in Zip 80904 (Colorado Springs, CO) is leaning conservative.
El Paso County, CO is somewhat conservative. In El Paso County, CO 42.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 53.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, El Paso county remained strongly Republican, 53.5% to 42.7%.
El Paso county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 80904 (Colorado Springs, CO) is leaning conservative.
Colorado Springs, Colorado is leaning conservative.
El Paso County, Colorado is somewhat conservative.
Colorado Springs Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
Colorado is somewhat 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.
Colorado Springs, Colorado: 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 80904 (Colorado Springs)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,300 contributions totaling $392,302 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $119 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 646 contributions totaling $266,038 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $412 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)