Akron, Ohio is located in the 40319 zip code and is home to a variety of politics. The city has an elected Mayor, council members, school board members, and other local representatives who are all responsible for making decisions that affect the citizens of Akron. The current Mayor of Akron is Dan Horrigan from the Democratic Party and he has been mayor since 2016. The City Council consists of 13 members who are elected to four-year terms from seven wards throughout the city. In addition, the Akron Public Schools Board consists of seven members who are also elected to four-year terms. Elections for both municipal positions and school board positions occur every two years during November general elections with Primary Elections being held in May prior to each General Election. Through these various leadership roles, Akron residents have an opportunity to make their voices heard in order to shape their community for the betterment of themselves and their families.
The political climate in Zip 44310 (Akron, OH) is somewhat liberal.
Summit County, OH is somewhat liberal. In Summit County, OH 53.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Summit county remained moderately Democratic, 53.9% to 44.4%.
Summit county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 44310 (Akron, OH) is somewhat liberal.
Akron, Ohio is somewhat liberal.
Summit County, Ohio is somewhat liberal.
Akron Metro Area is leaning 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.
Akron, 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 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 44310 (Akron)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 163 contributions totaling $3,356 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $21 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 69 contributions totaling $62,580 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $907 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)