Georgetown, Idaho is a small city with a population of about 1000 people. The town is governed by a Mayor and four Council Members who are elected for two-year terms. The Council is responsible for setting policy for the town as well as overseeing financial matters and promoting the town. The Mayor presides over all meetings and has the authority to veto any legislation passed by the Council. In addition, Georgetown holds regular elections to select new members of the Council and Mayor every two years. Local issues that citizens of Georgetown often vote on include things like budgets, road improvements, parks and recreation facilities, school board appointments, and other matters related to local life in Georgetown. Every election cycle brings forth new ideas from both candidates hoping to make their mark on Georgetown's future.
The political climate in Georgetown, ID is very conservative.
Bear Lake County, ID is very conservative. In Bear Lake County, ID 10.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 87.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bear Lake county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 87.9% to 10.6%.
Bear Lake county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Georgetown, ID is very conservative.
Bear Lake County, Idaho is very conservative.
Idaho is strongly conservative.
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.
Georgetown, Idaho: 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Georgetown, ID
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 8 contributions totaling $813 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $102 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)