Conway, AR is a town located in Faulkner County and has a population of around 64,000. It is the county seat of Faulkner County and serves as the political center for the area. Local politics in Conway are dominated by the Republican Party with the majority of elected officials being Republicans. There are several state representatives and senators from the area that serve in both chambers of Arkansas legislature in Little Rock, AR. The mayor of Conway is Bart Castleberry who was elected in 2018 and is a Republican. Additionally, Conway has an active presence in local campaigns with several candidates running for various offices at both the state and local level each election cycle.
The political climate in Conway, AR is somewhat conservative.
Faulkner County, AR is strongly conservative. In Faulkner County, AR 33.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Faulkner county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.2% to 33.7%.
Faulkner county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Conway, AR is somewhat conservative.
Faulkner County, Arkansas is strongly conservative.
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metro Area is leaning conservative.
Arkansas 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.
Conway, Arkansas: 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 Conway, AR
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 6,050 contributions totaling $431,547 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $71 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,072 contributions totaling $608,865 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $294 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)