The city of Beachwood, OH is located in Cuyahoga County and is a part of the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan area. It is an affluent suburb of Cleveland with a diverse economy that includes finance, biotech, manufacturing, healthcare, retail and professional services. Beachwood has many businesses as well as corporate headquarters for several large companies. The residents of Beachwood are served by elected officials from the local, state, and federal levels. At the local level, there is a mayor and city council who are responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the city. The Ohio State Legislature works to create laws that affect all citizens of Ohio while U.S Congress members represent Beachwood at the federal level where national policies are debated and passed into law. Residents have the opportunity to participate in local politics by voting for candidates in elections or attending government meetings to make their voices heard on important issues affecting their community.
The political climate in Beachwood, OH is moderately liberal.
Cuyahoga County, OH is very liberal. In Cuyahoga County, OH 66.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 32.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cuyahoga county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 66.4% to 32.3%.
Cuyahoga county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Beachwood, OH is moderately liberal.
Cuyahoga County, Ohio is very liberal.
Cleveland-Elyria Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Ohio is leaning 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.
Beachwood, Ohio: 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Beachwood, OH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 8,110 contributions totaling $2,367,814 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $292 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,230 contributions totaling $4,520,051 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $3,675 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)