Lehigh Acres, FL is a city located in Lee County in Southwest Florida. It is one of the largest unincorporated communities in the state with over 86,000 residents and growing. Politically, Lehigh Acres leans right, but there are still many progressive voices in the area. Several prominent political candidates have made their name known recently in Lehigh Acres, including Richard DeNapoli who ran for the State Senate seat and Robert Maynard who sought to be elected to the House of Representatives. While both candidates lost their respective races, they represented an important shift in politics and showed that progressive ideas have a place in the community. Currently, Lehigh Acres works with the Lee County Board of County Commissioners to pass legislation and create policies that will improve local living standards for its citizens.
The political climate in Zip 33973 (Lehigh Acres, FL) is leaning 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 33973 (Lehigh Acres, FL) is leaning conservative.
Lehigh Acres, Florida is leaning 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.
Lehigh Acres, 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 33973 (Lehigh Acres)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 55 contributions totaling $5,600 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $102 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 40 contributions totaling $2,287 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $57 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)