Calhoun City, MS is a small municipality in North Mississippi with a population of approximately 1,000 people. Politically, Calhoun City is a conservative-leaning area that has traditionally supported Republican candidates at the local and statewide levels. The current mayor is a Republican who was elected in 2018 to serve for the next four years. In addition to the mayor, there are eight city council members from various wards within the town who are all Republicans as well. At the state legislative level, Calhoun City is represented by two Republican state representatives and one Republican senator. As such, it can be said that politics in Calhoun City tends to lean more toward the right than the left.
The political climate in Calhoun City, MS is strongly conservative.
Calhoun County, MS is very conservative. In Calhoun County, MS 28.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Calhoun county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.2% to 28.9%.
Calhoun county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Calhoun City, MS is strongly conservative.
Calhoun County, Mississippi is very conservative.
Mississippi 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.
Calhoun City, Mississippi: 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 Calhoun City, MS
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 50 contributions totaling $3,726 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $75 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)