Pleasure Bend, LA is a small rural town located in the south of Louisiana. Despite its small size, the politics of Pleasure Bend still have an impact on the local community. Issues such as education, healthcare, and infrastructure are just some of the topics that local political candidates debate about at election time. The town's mayor is elected every four years and oversees all decisions made by the local government. They also represent the town in other state-level political issues. Every two years, two city council members are elected to represent each of the wards in Pleasure Bend. These representatives discuss additional matters pertaining to their constituents’ needs and concerns.
The political climate in Pleasure Bend, 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
Pleasure Bend, 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.
Pleasure Bend, 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 Pleasure Bend, LA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 16 contributions totaling $2,973 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $186 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 39 contributions totaling $17,520 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $449 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)