Ball Ground, Georgia is a small city located in Cherokee County. Despite its relatively small stature, Ball Ground has always been an active participant in the county's political scene. Voters in Ball Ground take part in electing local representatives for city council and voting on local referendums that can have a major impact on the future of the city. The most recent election saw incumbent members of the council being reelected, as well as several new candidates getting elected to office. Ball Ground residents are passionate about exercising their right to vote and having their voices heard when it comes to important issues facing their community. Political engagement is strong in Ball Ground, and there is no doubt that residents will continue to be engaged with local politics for many years to come.
The political climate in Ball Ground, GA is strongly conservative.
Cherokee County, GA is very conservative. In Cherokee County, GA 29.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 68.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cherokee county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 68.7% to 29.5%.
Cherokee county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Ball Ground, GA is strongly conservative.
Cherokee County, Georgia is very conservative.
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta Metro Area is moderately liberal.
Georgia is leaning liberal.
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.
Ball Ground, Georgia: 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 Ball Ground, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 96 contributions totaling $6,510 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $68 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 283 contributions totaling $68,071 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $241 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)