Washington, DC is the capital of the United States and it is a politically charged environment. It is home to many government offices and lawmakers, making political discourse a daily occurrence. The city holds elections for Mayor, City Council, Attorney General, and U.S. Representatives every two years in April. The most recent election in 2019 had very high voter turnout with nearly 83% of registered voters casting their ballots. This signifies the level of engagement that citizens have in local politics and their desire for change within the city’s government structure. With changing demographics come new faces on the scene in 2019 including a new mayor Muriel Bowser and 8 new members of City Council. These changes demonstrate an evolution for Washington D.C., one where residents are actively engaging with politics and striving to create a better political landscape for themselves and future generations to come.
The political climate in Zip 20001 (Washington, DC) is very liberal.
District of Columbia County, DC is very liberal. In District of Columbia County, DC 92.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 5.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, District of Columbia county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 92.1% to 5.4%.
District of Columbia county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 20001 (Washington, DC) is very liberal.
Washington, District of Columbia is very liberal.
District of Columbia County, District of Columbia is very liberal.
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metro Area is very liberal.
District of Columbia is very 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.
Washington, District of Columbia: 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 20001 (Washington)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 26,508 contributions totaling $80,387,006 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $3,033 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,365 contributions totaling $3,140,584 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,328 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)