Baker City, Oregon, is a rural city located in the northeastern region of Oregon. Despite its small population, it has an active and vibrant political scene. The governing body of Baker City is the City Council, which consists of five members elected by the people of Baker City to serve four year terms. These members are responsible for making decisions about the city's budget and other important matters. Additionally, Baker City has two representatives on the county Board of Commissioners who serve four year terms as well. Each election season, local candidates from both major political parties vie for these positions in order to ensure that their perspectives are heard at the local level. As such, politics in 97814 Baker City plays an important role in determining how resources are allocated and how laws are implemented within this community.
The political climate in Zip 97814 (Baker City, OR) is strongly conservative.
Baker County, OR is very conservative. In Baker County, OR 23.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 74.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Baker county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 74.0% to 23.6%.
Baker county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 97814 (Baker City, OR) is strongly conservative.
Baker City, Oregon is strongly conservative.
Baker County, Oregon is very conservative.
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Oregon is moderately liberal.
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.
Baker City, Oregon: 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 97814 (Baker City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 517 contributions totaling $29,990 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $58 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 258 contributions totaling $39,910 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $155 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)