Pell City, Alabama is a small city located in St. Clair County with a population of about 13,000 people. It is a vibrant community with engaged citizens that are active in local politics. There are three levels of government represented within the city: county, state and federal. The county government, St. Clair County Commission, is responsible for providing services to citizens such as public safety and utilities. The local state representatives help to pass laws that are beneficial to the residents of Pell City. At the federal level ,there are several elected officials from Alabama who represent Pell City in Congress and bring attention to the needs of their district on a larger scale. The locals tend to vote in each election for candidates who have demonstrated an understanding of the issues important to them and will work towards finding solutions for those issues.
The political climate in Pell City, AL is strongly 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
Pell City, AL is strongly 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.
Pell City, 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 Pell City, AL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 660 contributions totaling $93,821 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $142 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 484 contributions totaling $88,563 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $183 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)