The Mount Airy metro area is located in Surry County, North Carolina and is a part of the larger Winston-Salem metropolitan area. The local politics of the Mount Airy metro area are administered by the Surry County Board of Commissioners, which consists of seven members who are elected to four year terms from seven different districts. As part of their duties, these commissioners serve on various committees such as those that handle zoning and planning, public safety, and health services. They also review requests for county appropriations and provide oversight for several departments including Planning & Community Development, Social Services, Public Works, and Emergency Management. In addition to their role in county government, they also participate in state initiatives such as the State Budget and Tax Reform Commission. Local elections are held every two years on the first Tuesday after November 1st with residents selecting representatives to fill all seven seats on the Board of Commissioners.
The political climate in Mount Airy Metro Area is very conservative.
In Mount Airy Metro Area 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, the Mount Airy metro area remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.2% to 23.8%.
The Mount Airy metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
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.
Mount Airy, 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Mount Airy Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 801 contributions totaling $57,625 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $72 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 682 contributions totaling $221,618 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $325 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)