Hot Springs Village is a census-designated place in Garland and Saline counties located in Arkansas. It is an unincorporated community with a population of 12,807 people as of the 2010 census. Hot Springs Village operates under an elected mayor and board of directors which are responsible for enacting and enforcing local laws, regulations and ordinances. The mayor has the power to veto any action taken by the city council with two-thirds majority vote needed to override that veto. The city council is made up of seven members who are elected from each ward in the village and serve four-year terms. Elections are held every two years for alderman positions on either a partisan or nonpartisan basis depending on local statutes. Hot Springs Village's government works with state and federal representatives to ensure that their citizens have access to quality services such as education, medical care, fire protection, water supply, sewer systems, transportation infrastructure, parks, libraries and recreational facilities.
The political climate in Hot Springs Village, AR is strongly conservative.
Garland County, AR is very conservative. In Garland County, AR 31.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Garland county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.8% to 31.8%.
Garland county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Hot Springs Village, AR is strongly conservative.
Garland County, Arkansas is very conservative.
Hot Springs Metro Area 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.
Hot Springs Village, 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 Hot Springs Village, AR
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7,710 contributions totaling $414,962 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $54 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,078 contributions totaling $481,285 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $156 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)