Murfreesboro, Arkansas is a small city located in the south-central region of the state. The city is home to a diverse mix of people, businesses, and organizations. Murfreesboro is part of the larger Hot Spring County area, which has a population of around 25,000 people. The city is known for its friendly residents and vibrant community activities.
When it comes to politics in Murfreesboro, voters have choices when it comes to who will represent them in local and state government. The Arkansas Democratic Party holds most local offices in Murfreesboro while Republicans hold some at the county level. Candidates are chosen during primary elections and voters can choose from both parties when they go to the polls for general elections. Political issues that are important to residents often come down to creating jobs, providing good public schools, improving infrastructure and maintaining public safety. Voters take these issues into account when deciding who they want representing them in office.
The political climate in Murfreesboro, AR is strongly conservative.
Pike County, AR is very conservative. In Pike County, AR 15.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 82.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pike county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 82.9% to 15.2%.
Pike county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Murfreesboro, AR is strongly conservative.
Pike County, Arkansas is very conservative.
Arkansas 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.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas: 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 Murfreesboro, AR
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 12 contributions totaling $751 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $63 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)