Apex, North Carolina is a small town located in Wake County with a population of approximately 45,500 people. Politics in Apex are mainly focused on local issues such as education, transportation, business development and infrastructure investments. Local politicians work to ensure that the town has the funding and resources it needs to continue providing high-quality public services and creating job opportunities for residents. The town is represented by four elected officials who serve on the Apex Town Council: Mayor Lance Olive, Deputy Mayor Nicole Dozier, Commissioner Salomé Gresham and Commissioner Alisha Calamari. These officials work together to address local concerns while also representing citizens at larger regional levels and advocating for Apex at state and federal levels. This ensures that Apex remains an attractive place to live, work and do business.
The political climate in Zip 27539 (Apex, NC) is somewhat liberal.
Wake County, NC is strongly liberal. In Wake County, NC 62.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 35.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Wake county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 62.3% to 35.8%.
Wake county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 27539 (Apex, NC) is somewhat liberal.
Apex, North Carolina is somewhat liberal.
Wake County, North Carolina is strongly liberal.
Raleigh-Cary Metro Area is moderately liberal.
North Carolina 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.
Apex, North Carolina: 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 27539 (Apex)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,254 contributions totaling $69,630 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $56 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 437 contributions totaling $314,769 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $720 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)