Dawsonville, Georgia is a small city located in northeastern Georgia and is the county seat of Dawson County. It is home to many outdoor activities, such as Amicalola Falls State Park and Lake Lanier. In terms of politics, Dawsonville has a mayor-city council form of government and utilizes an open town hall meeting format to ensure that citizens have their voices heard. The mayor acts as the chief executive of the city and is elected by the citizens every four years. The Council consists of five members who are responsible for creating laws and ordinances, setting budgets, appoint committees, and other duties. They are also elected by the citizens on a staggered basis every two years. Local political candidates for both positions must be residents of Dawsonville who are registered voters with no criminal record or pending charges. All voting for these positions happens during local elections.
The political climate in Dawsonville, GA is strongly conservative.
Dawson County, GA is very conservative. In Dawson County, GA 15.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 83.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dawson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 83.3% to 15.5%.
Dawson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Dawsonville, GA is strongly conservative.
Dawson County, Georgia is very conservative.
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta Metro Area is moderately liberal.
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.
Dawsonville, 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 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 Dawsonville, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 662 contributions totaling $35,886 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $54 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,118 contributions totaling $190,144 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $170 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)