Point Clear, AL is an unincorporated community located in Baldwin County. It lies along the Gulf of Mexico and shares a border with the City of Fairhope, Alabama. The community is primarily residential and has no local government or political representation. Residents of Point Clear often turn to their local county government for municipal services such as waste management, fire protection, and other government resources. The county is served by a five-member board of commissioners elected on a countywide basis. Other elected officials such as probate judge, district attorney, sheriff, treasurer, auditor, chief clerk of court and circuit clerks are chosen in countywide elections every four years. The county's legislative delegation consists of state senators and representatives who are also elected in countywide ballots every two years.
The political climate in Point Clear, AL is moderately conservative.
Baldwin County, AL is very conservative. In Baldwin County, AL 22.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 76.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Baldwin county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 76.2% to 22.4%.
Baldwin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Point Clear, AL is moderately conservative.
Baldwin County, Alabama is very conservative.
Daphne-Fairhope-Foley Metro Area is very conservative.
Alabama is strongly 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.
Point Clear, Alabama: 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 Point Clear, AL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,518 contributions totaling $177,443 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $117 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,109 contributions totaling $319,698 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $288 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)