Friday Harbor, WA 98250 is a small community located on San Juan Island in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. Politically, the town is represented by elected officials at both the local and state levels. At the local level, the Town Council serves as the governing body of Friday Harbor. It consists of seven council members who are elected by residents of the town to two-year terms. The Town Council oversees various functions such as budgeting, zoning ordinances, and parks and recreation programs. At the state level, Friday Harbor is represented by Senator Kevin Ranker in Olympia representing District 40, which includes all San Juan County and parts of Whatcom County. In addition to Senator Ranker's office in Olympia, he has offices in both Friday Harbor and Anacortes to serve constituents from both counties.
The political climate in Zip 98250 (Friday Harbor, WA) is strongly liberal.
San Juan County, WA is very liberal. In San Juan County, WA 73.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 23.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, San Juan county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 73.7% to 23.2%.
San Juan county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 98250 (Friday Harbor, WA) is strongly liberal.
Friday Harbor, Washington is strongly liberal.
San Juan County, Washington is very liberal.
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Washington 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.
Friday Harbor, Washington: 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 98250 (Friday Harbor)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,695 contributions totaling $280,483 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $76 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 273 contributions totaling $88,325 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $324 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)