Ayden, NC is a small town with a big sense of community pride. The local government is comprised of a mayor and a five-member board of commissioners who are all elected to two-year terms. The town is known for its friendly, welcoming attitude and its many social events and activities throughout the year. The most recent town election featured four candidates vying for the position of mayor with the incumbent winning by a considerable margin. Issues such as economic development, crime prevention, infrastructure improvements, and environmental protection were all hot topics during the campaign season. Overall, Ayden’s citizens have consistently voted in favor of progress in their town and look forward to seeing more positive changes in the future.
The political climate in Ayden, NC is leaning liberal.
Pitt County, NC is somewhat liberal. In Pitt County, NC 54.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pitt county remained moderately Democratic, 54.0% to 44.5%.
Pitt county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Ayden, NC is leaning liberal.
Pitt County, North Carolina is somewhat liberal.
Greenville Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
North Carolina is leaning 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.
Ayden, North Carolina: r r 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 Ayden, NC
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,694 contributions totaling $51,476 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $30 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 192 contributions totaling $54,554 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $284 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)