Reidsville, NC is a small town in Rockingham County. It is home to an active and engaged community that takes great pride in their local politics. The town has a mayor-council form of government, with the mayor elected at-large and six council members representing districts. Town elections are held every two years in November. There are many opportunities for citizens to get involved and be active in the political process, from attending meetings to participating in voter registration drives. Additionally, Reidsville hosts several forums throughout the year to allow candidates running for office to present their plans and policies for the town. All of these events help to ensure local democracy remains strong in Reidsville by allowing the public to remain informed and make decisions about who will represent them in government.
The political climate in Reidsville, NC is somewhat conservative.
Rockingham County, NC is strongly conservative. In Rockingham County, NC 33.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Rockingham county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.5% to 33.4%.
Rockingham county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Reidsville, NC is somewhat conservative.
Rockingham County, North Carolina is strongly conservative.
Greensboro-High Point Metro Area is leaning liberal.
North Carolina is leaning 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.
Reidsville, North Carolina: 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 Reidsville, NC
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,590 contributions totaling $76,425 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $48 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 945 contributions totaling $151,120 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $160 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)