Prairie Grove, Arkansas is a small town located in Washington County and is home to over 5,000 residents. Politically, Prairie Grove is a predominantly Republican area with the majority of its residents voting for candidates from the Republican Party. Local elections are generally decided by relatively small margins as both parties tend to have viable candidates. The local government consists of elected officials such as mayor, city council members, county judge, and other positions. In addition to being involved in politics at the local level, many members of the community also participate in state and national elections. Overall, Prairie Grove is an active town when it comes to politics and strives to ensure that their representatives are representing their values and interests on all levels of government.
The political climate in Prairie Grove, AR is somewhat conservative.
Washington County, AR is leaning conservative. In Washington County, AR 46.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Washington county remained Republican, 50.4% to 46.5%.
Washington county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Prairie Grove, AR is somewhat conservative.
Washington County, Arkansas is leaning conservative.
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers Metro Area is moderately 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.
Prairie Grove, 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 Prairie Grove, AR
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 180 contributions totaling $9,424 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $52 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 76 contributions totaling $12,757 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $168 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)