Federal Way, WA 98003 is a city located in King County, Washington and is home to roughly 97,000 people. Federal Way has an active political environment with many candidates vying for city council positions and mayor. The current mayor of Federal Way is Jim Ferrell who was re-elected in 2019 after serving his first term from 2011-2015. The city council consists of seven members: Martin Moore, Susan Honda, Dini Duclos, Jesse Johnson, Hoang Tran, Mark Koppang and Pauly Klein. Each of the members serves four year terms and are elected at large by the citizens of Federal Way. They work together to create policy initiatives and manage the budgeting process for the City of Federal Way. Additionally, there are regular meetings between the Mayor and City Council to discuss important issues facing the city such as public safety or economic development. Citizens of Federal Way have direct access to their local representatives in order to voice their opinions about their government policies or share ideas on how to improve the community.
The political climate in Zip 98003 (Federal Way, 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 98003 (Federal Way, WA) is strongly liberal.
Federal Way, 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.
Federal Way, 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 98003 (Federal Way)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,804 contributions totaling $138,967 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $50 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 309 contributions totaling $51,089 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $165 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)