Connelly Springs, NC is a small town located in Burke County in western North Carolina. The town has a population of around 2,500 people and is known for its tight-knit community. Politically, Connelly Springs leans to the right and tends to vote Republican in local elections. In recent years, conservative candidates have held the majority of positions in the city council and mayor's office. Local issues like property taxes, infrastructure improvements, education funding, public safety initiatives, and environmental regulations are some of the topics that receive attention from political leaders in Connelly Springs. Residents often turn out in droves to support their chosen candidates during election season. With its focus on community values and preservation of traditional ways of life, Connelly Springs remains an important political entity in western North Carolina.
The political climate in Connelly Springs, NC is strongly conservative.
Burke County, NC is very conservative. In Burke County, NC 29.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 69.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Burke county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 69.5% to 29.4%.
Burke county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Connelly Springs, NC is strongly conservative.
Burke County, North Carolina is very conservative.
Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton Metro Area is very conservative.
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.
Connelly Springs, North Carolina: 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 Connelly Springs, NC
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 112 contributions totaling $5,194 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $46 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 120 contributions totaling $21,002 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $175 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)