Foley, AL is a small town located in Baldwin County. The town is governed by the Foley City Council, which comprises six elected members and a mayor. Each council member serves a three-year term in office. The mayor is elected to serve a two-year term of office. Mayor John Koniar was recently reelected for another term and the new council members were sworn in on July 1st, 2020. Issues discussed at City Council meetings vary from economic development initiatives to infrastructure maintenance projects to quality of life issues like parks and recreation programs. Residents can stay informed on local political issues by attending City Council meetings and staying up to date with local media outlets.
The political climate in Foley, AL is moderately conservative.
Baldwin County, AL is very conservative. In Baldwin County, AL 22.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 76.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Baldwin county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 76.2% to 22.4%.
Baldwin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Foley, AL is moderately conservative.
Baldwin County, Alabama is very conservative.
Daphne-Fairhope-Foley 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.
Foley, 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 Foley, AL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 707 contributions totaling $67,147 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $95 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 749 contributions totaling $246,021 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $328 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)