Prairie Creek, AR is a small town located in the southern part of the state with a strong sense of community. The local political climate is one that embraces collaboration and consensus-building among the citizens to make sure everyone's needs are being met. Every two years, citizens come together during municipal elections and choose representatives from their own neighborhoods who will serve on city council. These candidates represent a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives which helps shape the decisions that are made at city council meetings. Additionally, Prairie Creek is also home to numerous volunteer organizations that actively advocate for civic engagement and voter participation in local politics. With an engaged citizenry and committed city council members, Prairie Creek ensures its citizens’ voices are heard in all aspects of local government decision making.
The political climate in Prairie Creek, AR is moderately conservative.
Benton County, AR is strongly conservative. In Benton County, AR 35.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 61.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Benton county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 61.7% to 35.2%.
Benton county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Prairie Creek, AR is moderately conservative.
Benton County, Arkansas is strongly 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 Creek, 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 Creek, AR
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 557 contributions totaling $58,105 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $104 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 451 contributions totaling $140,272 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $311 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)