Sandy, UT is located in Salt Lake County and is a part of the greater Utah metropolitan area. Sandy is represented by many different elected officials at the local, state, and federal level. At the local level, residents are represented by their City Council members who are elected every four years. These council members work hard to make sure that the needs of their constituents are met and that their voices are heard. At the state level, Sandy is within Utah State Senate District 8 which is currently represented by Senator Dan Hemmert who was recently re-elected in November 2020. Finally, at the federal level, Sandy is represented by Congressman Chris Stewart who was also re-elected in 2020. All three of these representatives work to ensure that Sandy's interests are taken into account on a range of issues such as health care access, economic growth, education funding, infrastructure improvements and more.
The political climate in Zip 84094 (Sandy, UT) is leaning liberal.
Salt Lake County, UT is somewhat liberal. In Salt Lake County, UT 53.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 4.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Salt Lake county remained strongly Democratic, 53.0% to 42.1%.
Salt Lake county voted Democratic in 2020, 2016 and 2008, and voted Republican in 2012, 2004 and 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 84094 (Sandy, UT) is leaning liberal.
Sandy, Utah is leaning liberal.
Salt Lake County, Utah is somewhat liberal.
Salt Lake City Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Utah is moderately 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.
Sandy, Utah: R R d R 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 84094 (Sandy)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 760 contributions totaling $35,551 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $47 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 180 contributions totaling $17,271 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $96 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)