The city of Akron, OH is located in Summit County and has a population of around 200,000 people. It is the fifth-largest city in Ohio and is governed by an elected mayor and a nine-member City Council. The current mayor of Akron is Dan Horrigan who was first elected in 2015. The City Council is made up of nine members from each ward who are elected at-large for four year terms. Akron has long been known as a political stronghold for the Democratic Party and continues to be so today. In the 2020 presidential election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden won 69% of Akron’s votes compared to Republican candidate Donald Trump’s 30%. This result reflects that despite Akron’s traditional industrial roots, it remains a strongly liberal city with progressive values that are unlikely to change anytime soon.
The political climate in Zip 44301 (Akron, OH) is somewhat liberal.
Summit County, OH is somewhat liberal. In Summit County, OH 53.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Summit county remained moderately Democratic, 53.9% to 44.4%.
Summit county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 44301 (Akron, OH) is somewhat liberal.
Akron, Ohio is somewhat liberal.
Summit County, Ohio is somewhat liberal.
Akron Metro Area is leaning liberal.
Ohio 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.
Akron, Ohio: D D 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 44301 (Akron)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 161 contributions totaling $5,405 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $34 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 26 contributions totaling $8,101 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $312 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)