These were Maricopa’s most pro-Trump and pro-Harris neighborhoods
By
Elias Weiss, Editorial Director
Maricopa is about as evenly divided as national polls and mainstream news outlets promised the presidential election would be when it came to support for President-elect Donald J. Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris.
Of the dozen election precincts in Maricopa proper, six each went to Harris and Trump, according to the latest 12:30 p.m. tabulations from Pinal County Elections.
Harris, who at 2 p.m. will give her concession speech at Howard University after calling and congratulating Trump on his mystifying comeback victory, was the preferred candidate in the Maricopa, Tortosa, Desert Cedars, Senita, Rancho El Dorado and Alterra North neighborhoods, winning more than 50% of the vote in those precincts and leading Trump by an average of five points.
A map of the greater City of Maricopa area. Vice President Kamala Harris won more than 50% of the vote in precincts colored blue, while President-elect Donald J. Trump won more than 50% of the vote in precincts colored red. [Pinal County]Alterra North was the most pro-Harris precinct with 54% of voters there casting ballots for the vice president, compared with just under 47% for Trump.
Trump, however, leads the state of Arizona by five percentage points over Harris as of 1 p.m. in a red herring of a swing state it turned out Trump would not need to win 270 electoral votes.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during her final campaign rally in Arizona hosted at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheater on Oct. 31, 2024. [Monica D. Spencer]The Maricopa Meadows, El Dorado, Province, Maricopa Wells, Maricopa Fiesta and Santa Rosa precincts were barometers for Pinal County and indeed Arizona as voters there preferred Trump, who averaged 53% of the vote across those six precincts.
Santa Rosa was the most MAGA precinct inside city limits, with 56% of voters there supporting Trump and less than 43% for Harris.
Former President Donald J. Trump speaks to a packed house at Mullett Arena in Tempe Oct. 24, likely his last Arizona rally before the historic 2024 presidential election Nov. 5. [Bryan Mordt]The most partisan districts in the Maricopa community, however, were just past city limits. The Ak-Chin Indian Community voted 80-20 in favor of Harris, while Trump won two-thirds of the vote in Thunderbird Farms and a commanding 70% in Hidden Valley.
Elias Weiss, Editorial Director
Elias Weiss earned his journalism degree from the University of Arkansas and began reporting for the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He later led the Chatham Star-Tribune to a 2019 Best Weekly Newspaper award before working as an investigative reporter for Phoenix New Times and The Daily Beast. In 2023, he became managing editor at InMaricopa, winning top state awards for investigative and narrative reporting. In 2024, he took over as Editorial Director. Elias often discusses politics on KFNX.