Long Beach, MS is a small city on the Mississippi Gulf Coast with a population of about 15,000. The city has a council-manager form of government with an elected mayor and six-member City Council that serve four-year terms. The mayor and all council members are elected at large by the residents of Long Beach. The Mayor presides at all meetings of the Council and serves as the ceremonial head of government, while the City Manager oversees day-to-day operations. The Council establishes policies, adopts ordinances, approves contracts and sets budgets for city services such as public safety, parks and recreation, streets and drainage improvements, library services, economic development incentives, and more. In addition to local leadership, Long Beach is also part of Jackson County's Board of Supervisors which sets countywide policies that affect business regulations, zoning laws, property taxes and other important issues within Long Beach.
The political climate in Long Beach, MS is somewhat conservative.
Harrison County, MS is strongly conservative. In Harrison County, MS 36.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 61.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Harrison county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 61.7% to 36.5%.
Harrison county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Long Beach, MS is somewhat conservative.
Harrison County, Mississippi is strongly conservative.
Gulfport-Biloxi Metro Area 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.
Long Beach, 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 Long Beach, MS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 369 contributions totaling $19,852 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $54 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 346 contributions totaling $101,968 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $295 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)