Brunswick County is located in southeastern North Carolina and is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat of Brunswick County is Bolivia and the population as of the 2020 census was 109,431 people. Politically, Brunswick County leans heavily Republican with registered Republicans dominating the voter rolls, although there have been some Democratic victories in recent elections. The county is governed by a Board of Commissioners, who are elected to 4-year terms. There are also several state representatives and senators that serve Brunswick County. All are subject to popular election every two years and typically face both Republican and Democratic challengers. Locally, the county offers a variety of services such as schools, libraries, public works departments and tax offices to its citizens.
The political climate in Brunswick County, NC is strongly conservative.
In Brunswick County, NC 36.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 61.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Brunswick county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 61.9% to 36.9%.
Brunswick county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Brunswick County, NC is strongly conservative.
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach Metro Area is strongly 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.
Brunswick, 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Brunswick County, NC
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7,246 contributions totaling $325,225 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $45 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,864 contributions totaling $234,997 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $126 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)