Sun, LA is a small city located in the southern region of the state. The city is governed by a mayor-council form of government with the mayor and four council members forming the board. The current mayor is Jack Jones, who was elected to serve a four-year term in 2018. He has been active in civic affairs and ran on a platform of improving public safety, increasing access to economic opportunity, and creating community development initiatives. In addition to the mayor's office, there are two local political parties: Sun Democratic Party (SDP) and Sun Republican Party (SRP). Both parties support candidates that are committed to making positive changes for citizens in Sun, LA. The SDP has taken an active role in advocating for progressive policies such as providing more affordable housing options and raising minimum wage rates for workers while the SRP stands firm on their commitment to traditional values of smaller government involvement and fiscal responsibility.
The political climate in Sun, LA is very conservative.
St. Tammany County, LA is very conservative. In St. Tammany County, LA 26.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 71.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, St. Tammany parish remained overwhelmingly Republican, 71.1% to 26.9%.
St. Tammany county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sun, LA is very conservative.
St. Tammany County, Louisiana is very conservative.
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.
Sun, Louisiana: 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 Sun, LA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 10 contributions totaling $1,001 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 50 contributions totaling $7,902 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $158 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)