The small community of Carnesville, Georgia is located in Franklin County and has a population of around 1,100 people. It is a rural area between Athens and Toccoa off the historic U.S. Highway 17. The local politics of Carnesville are overseen by the City Council, who are elected by the community to serve four-year terms. The Mayor and City Council work together to create ordinances and manage the city budget in order to provide essential services such as water, sewer, garbage collection, public safety, street maintenance, parks and recreation, and many more services that benefit the citizens of Carnesville. They also have their own police department which is responsible for enforcing state laws within the city limits. In addition to this municipal government, both state representatives and congressional representatives from Georgia's 10th district serve Carnesville through legislation in the state capitol building in Atlanta as well as Washington D.C.. All these politicians work together to ensure that Carnesville remains a vibrant community that can grow and thrive while providing a high quality of life for its residents.
The political climate in Zip 30521 (Carnesville, GA) is very conservative.
Franklin County, GA is very conservative. In Franklin County, GA 14.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 84.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Franklin county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 84.2% to 14.8%.
Franklin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 30521 (Carnesville, GA) is very conservative.
Carnesville, Georgia is very conservative.
Franklin County, Georgia is very conservative.
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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.
Carnesville, 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 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 zip 30521 (Carnesville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 122 contributions totaling $4,523 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $37 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 20 contributions totaling $2,490 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $125 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)