St. Martinville, Louisiana is a small town with a population of about 8,000 people located in the heart of Cajun country. It is home to traditional Southern hospitality and old-world charm. Despite its small size, St. Martinville has a thriving local political scene that sees active participation from the community in municipal elections. The city council has nine members who are responsible for governing the city's affairs and enacting laws and ordinances to ensure the safety and well-being of the people living there. Every four years voters have the opportunity to elect new candidates who strive to represent their interests in city government. Through these elections, citizens have an important role in shaping their local politics in St. Martinville.
The political climate in St. Martinville, LA is somewhat conservative.
St. Martin County, LA is very conservative. In St. Martin County, LA 31.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 67.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, St. Martin parish remained overwhelmingly Republican, 67.3% to 31.2%.
St. Martin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
St. Martinville, LA is somewhat conservative.
St. Martin County, Louisiana is very conservative.
Lafayette Metro Area is very conservative.
Louisiana is moderately 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.
St. Martinville, Louisiana: 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 St. Martinville, LA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 104 contributions totaling $21,148 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $203 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 520 contributions totaling $533,428 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,026 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)