Mountain Brook, AL is a small community located within the greater Birmingham metropolitan area of Alabama. It boasts a high quality of life and its strict zoning and development regulations have enabled it to maintain its low-profile, quiet atmosphere. While Mountain Brook does not have its own local political candidates or elections, it is part of Jefferson County and is represented in the state legislature by State Senator Rodger Smitherman and State Representative Merika Coleman-Evans. The people of Mountain Brook are involved in the larger county politics and take part in important issues such as education reform, economic development, healthcare reform, and environmental protection. In addition to their involvement with Jefferson County government, citizens also actively participate in local charities and organizations that strive to improve the quality of life in Mountain Brook.
The political climate in Mountain Brook, AL is leaning liberal.
Jefferson County, AL is somewhat liberal. In Jefferson County, AL 55.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Jefferson county remained strongly Democratic, 55.8% to 42.6%.
Jefferson county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Mountain Brook, AL is leaning liberal.
Jefferson County, Alabama is somewhat liberal.
Birmingham-Hoover Metro Area is moderately conservative.
Alabama 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.
Mountain Brook, Alabama: r r 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 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 Mountain Brook, AL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11,539 contributions totaling $2,544,894 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $221 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 5,778 contributions totaling $4,674,485 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $809 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)