Tarpon Springs, Florida is a small community located in Pinellas County on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Politically, the city is a part of the state's 13th congressional district and the 24th Senate district. The current representative for the 13th district is Rep. Charlie Crist (D) and Senator Jeff Brandes (R) serves as senator for the 24th district. The city of Tarpon Springs has a local government which consists of a mayor, four council members, and an appointed City Manager who oversees all day-to-day operations. Elections for these officials occur every two years. In addition to its local representatives, Tarpon Springs residents are also involved in other political activities through organizations such as local party committees and civic groups that provide support to their elected representatives and focus on community issues. Overall, politics in Tarpon Springs reflect much of what is happening at the state level with two-party representation being fairly evenly split between Republicans and Democrats.
The political climate in Zip 34689 (Tarpon Springs, FL) is leaning conservative.
Pinellas County, FL is leaning liberal. In Pinellas County, FL 49.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 49.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pinellas county flipped narrowly Democratic, 49.4% to 49.2%.
Pinellas county flipped Democratic in most recent Presidential election (2016 and 2004 went Republican).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 34689 (Tarpon Springs, FL) is leaning conservative.
Tarpon Springs, Florida is leaning conservative.
Pinellas 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.
Tarpon Springs, Florida: d r d d r 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 34689 (Tarpon Springs)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,298 contributions totaling $59,616 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $46 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 224 contributions totaling $40,156 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $179 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)