Pearson, GA is a small town located in southeast Georgia. It is a rural community of approximately 2,000 people and has a mayor-council form of government. The current mayor of Pearson is Mayor Jones who was elected in 2018. The city council consists of six members, all elected by the citizens of Pearson. They represent the various districts within the city and work to ensure that the needs of the residents are met. The local political candidates running for office in 2020 are Chase Smith, Steven Gable, and Frank Jones Jr. Each candidate brings unique experience and ideas to the table which will help to make sure that Pearson remains a great place to live and work. All three candidates have stressed issues such as education, infrastructure projects, economic development, public safety, and attract more businesses to Pearson as their main priorities should they be elected into office.
The political climate in Pearson, GA is strongly conservative.
Atkinson County, GA is very conservative. In Atkinson County, GA 26.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 72.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Atkinson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 72.9% to 26.1%.
Atkinson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Pearson, GA is strongly conservative.
Atkinson County, Georgia is very conservative.
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.
Pearson, 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 Pearson, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 20 contributions totaling $2,305 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $115 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)