The city of 99224 Spokane, WA is located in the Eastern part of Washington State and is the second largest city in the state. It is home to a number of elected officials, including federal representatives from both parties as well as state legislators. The Mayor of Spokane is David Condon and he has been in office since 2012. Other elected positions include City Council members, County Commissioners, School Board members, and law enforcement officers. Despite its population size, policy issues such as education reform, transportation infrastructure improvements, water conservation initiatives, and public health initiatives are all hotly contested political debates in 99224 Spokane. Residents are passionate about their local government representatives and take great pride in voting for their candidates of choice.
The political climate in Zip 99224 (Spokane, 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 99224 (Spokane, WA) is leaning conservative.
Spokane, 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, 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 99224 (Spokane)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,018 contributions totaling $150,773 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $75 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 315 contributions totaling $84,369 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $268 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)