Kennedy, Alabama is a small town located in Etowah County. It is an area that is heavily focused on family values and community engagement. The local politics of Kennedy are centered around providing the best services for residents while keeping taxes low. Locals actively participate in their government and have elected officials who make decisions based on the needs of the people. The mayor and city council work together to ensure that basic services such as infrastructure, public safety, education, health care, and recreation are available to all members of the community. Local elections tend to be very competitive and involve a high degree of involvement by citizens who want to ensure that their voices are heard when it comes to policy decisions impacting their daily lives. All in all, Kennedy is a proud place with an active political presence that strives to meet the needs of its citizens.
The political climate in Kennedy, AL is strongly conservative.
Lamar County, AL is very conservative. In Lamar County, AL 13.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 85.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lamar county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 85.8% to 13.6%.
Lamar county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Kennedy, AL is strongly conservative.
Lamar County, Alabama 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.
Kennedy, 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 Kennedy, AL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 234 contributions totaling $5,827 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $25 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 18 contributions totaling $1,020 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $57 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)