The small town of Margaret, AL is home to a close-knit community that is passionately involved in local politics. Every election year, the town’s residents come together to select their leaders and make critical decisions about the future of their beloved city. Residents are encouraged to participate in the electoral process by researching local candidates and sharing their political beliefs with their neighbors. This active involvement in politics helps to ensure that the residents of Margaret have a say in determining who will represent them in their government. With its strong sense of civic engagement, Margaret has become a model for political participation and democracy in rural areas across America.
The political climate in Margaret, AL is very conservative.
St. Clair County, AL is very conservative. In St. Clair County, AL 17.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 81.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, St. Clair county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 81.4% to 17.4%.
St. Clair county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Margaret, AL is very conservative.
St. Clair County, Alabama is very conservative.
Birmingham-Hoover Metro Area is moderately 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.
Margaret, 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 Margaret, AL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 32 contributions totaling $5,898 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $184 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 116 contributions totaling $18,115 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $156 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)