The City of Maple Valley, WA is a small community just outside of Seattle, with a population of about 22,000 people. It is the home of King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn, who was first elected in 2008 and is now in his fourth term representing the eighth legislative district. Additionally, State Senator Steve Litzow serves the 41st Legislative District which includes Maple Valley and parts of Bellevue and Renton. His tenure began in 2011 and he has been re-elected three times since then. The local politics in 98038 Maple Valley are largely focused on issues that affect the area's quality of life such as maintaining public safety, protecting and expanding access to health care services, supporting small businesses for economic growth, and encouraging environmentally sustainable policies. Politicians here also work to ensure that all citizens have access to good education opportunities both at public schools and local universities.
The political climate in Zip 98038 (Maple Valley, WA) is moderately 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 98038 (Maple Valley, WA) is moderately liberal.
Maple Valley, Washington is moderately 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.
Maple Valley, 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 98038 (Maple Valley)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,175 contributions totaling $79,966 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $68 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 402 contributions totaling $63,571 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $158 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)