Winter Park, Colorado is a small town of about 1,000 people located in the Rocky Mountains. Politically, the area leans conservative and is represented by a variety of local political figures. Currently, the mayor of Winter Park is Mary Gasparovic who has held office since 2013. The town council consists of five elected members: Bill Miller, Jim Martin, Sarah Brown, Jack Anderson, and John Price. Each year residents have the opportunity to vote on several ballot measures including tax increases, bond issues and other local initiatives. In addition to electing their representatives for state-level positions every two years, residents also get to elect members for their county commission every four years. Through a combination of these elected officials and more direct involvement from local citizens Winter Park maintains its unique identity as an independent town within Colorado's larger governmental structure.
The political climate in Zip 80482 (Winter Park, CO) is leaning conservative.
Grand County, CO is leaning conservative. In Grand County, CO 47.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 49.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Grand county remained narrowly Republican, 49.5% to 47.7%.
Grand county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 80482 (Winter Park, CO) is leaning conservative.
Winter Park, Colorado is leaning conservative.
Grand County, Colorado is leaning conservative.
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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.
Winter Park, 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 80482 (Winter Park)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 236 contributions totaling $9,700 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $41 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 20 contributions totaling $3,021 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $151 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)