Merritt Island, Florida is an unincorporated city located on a barrier island in Brevard County. It is considered part of the larger Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area and has a population of approximately 25,000 people. Politically, Merritt Island is largely represented by Republican representatives in local and state government. The current mayor of Merritt Island is Robert Jordan, and the local representatives for Brevard County to the State House are Tyler Sirois and Randy Fine. The area is also represented by two county commissioners, John Tobia and Bryan Lober. Residents of Merritt Island can get involved in local politics by attending city council meetings or voting in local elections.
The political climate in Zip 32953 (Merritt Island, FL) is somewhat conservative.
Brevard County, FL is moderately conservative. In Brevard County, FL 41.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 57.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Brevard county remained very strongly Republican, 57.5% to 41.1%.
Brevard county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 32953 (Merritt Island, FL) is somewhat conservative.
Merritt Island, Florida is somewhat conservative.
Brevard County, Florida is moderately conservative.
Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville 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.
Merritt Island, 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 32953 (Merritt Island)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 916 contributions totaling $108,131 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $118 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 517 contributions totaling $89,188 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $173 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)