The city of Bedford, OH is located in Cuyahoga County and is home to approximately 13,000 citizens. The government of Bedford runs on a council-manager system, with six members on the City Council that are elected by the people. Each member serves a four year term and works with the Mayor to develop policy, regulations, and ordinances. The Mayor acts as the legislative authority of Bedford and is elected at large for a four year term. The current Mayor is Daniel Pocek who was elected in November of 2019. The city also has many local political candidates running for office each election season, providing citizens with plenty of options when it comes to voting in local elections. Bedford remains an active participant in local politics by striving for transparency in government operations and encouraging public involvement through citizen committees and boards.
The political climate in Zip 44146 (Bedford, OH) is strongly 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
Zip 44146 (Bedford, OH) is strongly liberal.
Bedford, Ohio is strongly 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.
Bedford, 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 44146 (Bedford)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 512 contributions totaling $26,295 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $51 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 109 contributions totaling $86,071 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $790 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)