Issaquah, WA 98029 is a vibrant community with its own distinct political landscape. The city is served by a Mayor and six Councilmembers who are elected from the community. They are responsible for passing laws, setting budgets, and making decisions that affect the local population. The city has a diverse array of organizations, committees, and task forces that help guide policy decisions in areas such as economic development, public safety, environmental protection, health care, and transportation. Issues addressed by the City Council include providing housing for all its citizens, supporting small businesses to create jobs, protecting local forests and wetlands from development, and managing infrastructure projects. Local residents have many opportunities to get involved in their political process by attending meetings of governmental bodies or special interest groups and by voicing their opinions on important issues affecting their city.
The political climate in Zip 98029 (Issaquah, WA) is strongly liberal.
King County, WA is very liberal. In King County, WA 75.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 22.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, King county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 75.0% to 22.2%.
King county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 98029 (Issaquah, WA) is strongly liberal.
Issaquah, Washington is strongly liberal.
King County, Washington is very liberal.
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue Metro Area is very liberal.
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.
Issaquah, 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 98029 (Issaquah)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,556 contributions totaling $450,619 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $127 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 665 contributions totaling $125,628 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $189 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)