Pilot Mountain, NC is a small town of around 1,700 people located in northwestern North Carolina. As with any other municipality, the town has its own unique political landscape. The town is governed by a mayor and four-member board of commissioners that are elected by the citizens of Pilot Mountain. Elections for the mayor and commission seats are held every two years, when residents have the opportunity to choose their local leaders. The town also has representatives on both county and state boards who are appointed or elected to represent Pilot Mountain's interests at higher levels of government. In addition to local elections, Pilot Mountain citizens can exercise their democratic rights through engagement with national politics as well as through local initiatives such as volunteerism and active civic participation in order to shape the future of their community.
The political climate in Pilot Mountain, NC is strongly conservative.
Surry County, NC is very conservative. In Surry County, NC 23.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 75.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Surry county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.2% to 23.8%.
Surry county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Pilot Mountain, NC is strongly conservative.
Surry County, North Carolina is very conservative.
Mount Airy Metro Area is very conservative.
North Carolina is leaning 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.
Pilot Mountain, North Carolina: 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 Pilot Mountain, NC
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 85 contributions totaling $2,327 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $27 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 49 contributions totaling $18,416 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $376 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)