Plant City, FL is located in Hillsborough County and is part of the Tampa Bay area. Politically, Plant City is a swing area that has both Republican and Democratic voters. In recent years, the city saw a large increase in voter registration for both parties. However, the majority of registered voters are still Republican. In local elections, county and state representatives are often determined based on the preferences of Plant City’s citizens. The city is currently represented by State Senator Tom Lee (R-Thonotosassa) in the Florida legislature as well as Congressman Ross Spano (R-Lakeland) in Congress. Recent local political races have seen passionate campaigns from both major party candidates vying for control of city government. These races bring out strong opinions from residents and show just how divided this swing area can be at times.
The political climate in Zip 33565 (Plant City, FL) is leaning conservative.
Hillsborough County, FL is leaning liberal. In Hillsborough County, FL 52.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 45.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hillsborough county remained moderately Democratic, 52.7% to 45.8%.
Hillsborough county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 33565 (Plant City, FL) is leaning conservative.
Plant City, Florida is leaning conservative.
Hillsborough County, Florida is leaning liberal.
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metro Area is leaning 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.
Plant City, Florida: r r 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 33565 (Plant City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 310 contributions totaling $23,941 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $77 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 171 contributions totaling $25,018 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $146 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)