Garyville, LA is a small town located in the south of Louisiana with a population of around 3,000 people. The city has an active political landscape with both local and state level elections taking place every year. On the local level, the town's residents elect a mayor and four council members that serve on the Garyville City Council to provide guidance on decisions impacting the community. With state-level elections, citizens select their representatives to represent them in the Louisiana House and Senate. Those elected officials then work to pass laws that benefit all Louisianans. In addition to these elections, citizens also participate in various other forms of civic engagement such as attending civic meetings and engaging in conversations about current issues in their community. As a result, politics are an integral part of life in Garyville and ensure that residents have a say in how their city is run.
The political climate in Garyville, LA is somewhat liberal.
St. John the Baptist County, LA is strongly liberal. In St. John the Baptist County, LA 63.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 35.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, St. John the Baptist parish remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 63.4% to 35.2%.
St. John the Baptist county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Garyville, LA is somewhat liberal.
St. John the Baptist County, Louisiana is strongly liberal.
New Orleans-Metairie Metro Area is leaning liberal.
Louisiana is moderately 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.
Garyville, Louisiana: D d D D D D
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 Garyville, LA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11 contributions totaling $54,375 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $4,943 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 24 contributions totaling $32,105 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,338 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)