Ozark, Alabama is a small city located in Dale County. It has a long history of politics and actively elects officials to represent their community. Ozark has a mayor-council system of local government with an elected mayor and five council members who are elected at-large or from single-member districts. The Mayor is chosen in a nonpartisan election while the five City Council members must be affiliated with a political party. Ozark is also served by representatives in both the Alabama House of Representatives and the Alabama Senate. These representatives have been elected to serve Ozark as well as other areas in Dale County. Local elections are held every four years and citizens can vote for candidates that they feel will represent the interests of their city in the most effective way possible.
The political climate in Ozark, AL is moderately conservative.
Dale County, AL is very conservative. In Dale County, AL 26.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 72.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dale county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 72.5% to 26.2%.
Dale county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Ozark, AL is moderately conservative.
Dale County, Alabama is very conservative.
Ozark Metro Area is very conservative.
Alabama is strongly 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.
Ozark, Alabama: 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 Ozark, AL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 206 contributions totaling $37,385 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $181 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 245 contributions totaling $57,413 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $234 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)