Tunica Resorts, Mississippi is a small city with a population of 943. It is located in the northwest corner of DeSoto County and has a long history of politics dating back to the 1800s. Today, the city is governed by a mayor-council form of government in which five elected council members work alongside the mayor to make decisions on behalf of the citizens. The current mayor of Tunica Resorts is Mayor Willie Denton who was elected in 2019 and will serve until 2023. As for the local political candidates, there are many running in this years election cycle that represent different platforms and ideas for how to best serve their constituents. Some focus on issues such as infrastructure investments, economic development, public safety initiatives, education reform and more. While none have been officially decided yet, it can be assumed that when the votes are tallied we will see some interesting changes to how things are run in Tunica Resorts.
The political climate in Tunica Resorts, MS is strongly liberal.
Tunica County, MS is very liberal. In Tunica County, MS 72.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 26.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Tunica county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 72.4% to 26.0%.
Tunica county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Tunica Resorts, MS is strongly liberal.
Tunica County, Mississippi is very liberal.
Memphis Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
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.
Tunica Resorts, Mississippi: D D D D D D
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 Tunica Resorts, MS
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 16 contributions totaling $5,815 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $363 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)