Wake Forest, NC is a small town located in the northeast part of the state. It has a history that dates back to the late 1700s when it was founded by a group of settlers from Virginia. The town is known for its charming downtown area, excellent schools, and friendly people. Politically, Wake Forest is part of Wake County and has been represented at the county level by a Board of Commissioners since 1814. Currently, Wake County is served by Board Chair Matt Calabria, Vice-Chair Jessica Holmes, and Commissioners Greg Ford, Sig Hutchinson, John Burns and Matt Scott. At the state level, Democrats are currently holding most of the elected offices in Wake Forest such as Governor Roy Cooper and Representatives Cynthia Ball and Robert Reives II. These representatives have worked hard to ensure that Wake Forest remains one of North Carolina’s safest cities with low crime rates and economic stability.
The political climate in Wake Forest, NC is leaning liberal.
Wake County, NC is strongly liberal. In Wake County, NC 62.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 35.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Wake county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 62.3% to 35.8%.
Wake county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Wake Forest, NC is leaning liberal.
Wake County, North Carolina is strongly liberal.
Raleigh-Cary Metro Area is moderately 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.
Wake Forest, 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 Wake Forest, NC
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7,261 contributions totaling $924,932 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $127 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,076 contributions totaling $616,958 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $297 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)