Charleston, AR is a small city located in Franklin County, Arkansas. It is home to a thriving community of around 2,500 people. Politics in Charleston is very much a local affair with the City Council providing the main platform for political discourse and decision making. The Mayor, four Aldermen and one Recorder form the City Council which meets regularly to discuss local issues such as infrastructure investment and public services. With each new election cycle, a range of local candidates are presented to the citizens of Charleston who must then make their choice on who they believe will best represent their interests at the City Council meetings. The citizens of Charleston have always prided themselves on being actively involved in local politics and utilizing their right to vote so that their voices can be heard at the local level.
The political climate in Charleston, AR is strongly conservative.
Franklin County, AR is very conservative. In Franklin County, AR 18.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Franklin county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.6% to 18.2%.
Franklin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Charleston, AR is strongly conservative.
Franklin County, Arkansas is very 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.
Charleston, 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 Charleston, AR
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 24 contributions totaling $1,186 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $49 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 72 contributions totaling $6,656 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $92 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)