Toccoa, GA is a town in rural northeast Georgia with a population of approximately 8,500 people. It is the home to many hardworking citizens who are proud to call themselves residents of this small community. The politics in Toccoa are not as visible as the national political landscape, but the local candidates and issues still matter deeply to the citizens here. In recent years, some of the local elections have been heavily contested and have stayed within a few percentage points of each other. Citizens take part in their civic duty by voting for their local representatives who will work on various topics such as public safety, infrastructure and economic development.
The political climate in Toccoa, GA is moderately conservative.
Stephens County, GA is very conservative. In Stephens County, GA 20.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Stephens county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.8% to 20.1%.
Stephens county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Toccoa, GA is moderately conservative.
Stephens County, Georgia is very conservative.
Toccoa Metro Area is very conservative.
Georgia is leaning 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.
Toccoa, Georgia: 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 Toccoa, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 657 contributions totaling $58,230 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $89 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 474 contributions totaling $85,509 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $180 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)