Cape Coral, Florida is located in Lee County and has a population of around 185,000 people. The city is governed by an elected mayor and six council members who represent seven districts. As the largest municipality in Southwest Florida, the city of Cape Coral is heavily focused on promoting economic growth and development throughout the area. Recently, local political candidates have discussed issues such as job creation, infrastructure improvements, environmental conservation, public safety, and quality of life initiatives that would benefit all citizens of Cape Coral. The city also works to ensure that all citizens have access to necessary social services and resources so that everyone can participate in the civic process. Overall, political candidates are striving to make positive changes within Cape Coral so that it remains a prosperous and desirable place for residents to live, work, and raise families.
The political climate in Zip 33990 (Cape Coral, FL) is somewhat conservative.
Lee County, FL is moderately conservative. In Lee County, FL 39.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lee county remained very strongly Republican, 59.1% to 39.9%.
Lee county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 33990 (Cape Coral, FL) is somewhat conservative.
Cape Coral, Florida is somewhat conservative.
Lee County, Florida is moderately conservative.
Cape Coral-Fort Myers Metro Area is moderately conservative.
Florida is leaning conservative.
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.
Cape Coral, Florida: 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 33990 (Cape Coral)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 660 contributions totaling $49,466 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $75 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 157 contributions totaling $29,406 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $187 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)