The city of Spokane Valley, WA is located in the 99216 zipcode and is a part of Spokane County. The city is governed by a mayor-council form of government, with the mayor being elected at large and six councilmembers representing each district within the city limits. The current mayor is Rod Higgins, who has served since 2018. Each district also elects their councilmembers to serve four-year terms. Currently, the councilmembers include Aaron Derr, Diana Wilhite, Linda Thompson, Caleb Collier, Ben Wick and Arne Woodard. The city works to ensure that all citizens have access to quality services and amenities through various boards and commissions as well as regular public meetings for citizens to voice their concerns and opinions about important issues impacting their community.
The political climate in Zip 99216 (Spokane Valley, WA) is leaning conservative.
Spokane County, WA is leaning conservative. In Spokane County, WA 46.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Spokane county remained Republican, 50.3% to 46.0%.
Spokane county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 99216 (Spokane Valley, WA) is leaning conservative.
Spokane Valley, Washington is leaning conservative.
Spokane County, Washington is leaning conservative.
Spokane-Spokane Valley Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
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.
Spokane Valley, Washington: 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 99216 (Spokane Valley)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 221 contributions totaling $14,607 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $66 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 213 contributions totaling $26,992 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $127 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)