Poston, Arizona is a small town in La Paz County with a population of just over 2,000. It is primarily rural and has a strong agricultural industry based on cattle ranching and farming. Politically, Poston falls within Arizona's 6th Congressional District and is represented by Representative David Schweikert. The state senator for Poston is Sylvia Allen and the state representative is Walt Blackman. Local government is handled by the La Paz County Board of Supervisors which sets the budget and makes policy decisions for the county. They are elected to staggered four-year terms in partisan elections. Other local elections include those for mayor, city council members, school board members, and sheriff of La Paz County. Overall, political views in Poston tend to be conservative as it is part of an overwhelmingly Republican congressional district.
The political climate in Zip 85371 (Poston, AZ) is strongly conservative.
La Paz County, AZ is very conservative. In La Paz County, AZ 29.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 68.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, La Paz county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 68.6% to 29.9%.
La Paz county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 85371 (Poston, AZ) is strongly conservative.
Poston, Arizona is strongly conservative.
La Paz County, Arizona is very conservative.
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Arizona is leaning 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.
Poston, Arizona: 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 85371 (Poston)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)