Jefferson City, TN is a small town located in East Tennessee. It has a population of around 8,500 people and is the county seat for Jefferson County. Politically, the city leans heavily toward the Republican Party with about 70% of registered voters identifying as Republican. The current mayor of Jefferson City is Jerry Gist, who was elected in 2018. Gist has held various local offices throughout his political career and is an advocate for economic development and infrastructure improvements to benefit the community. Local elections for a variety of positions take place every two years with Republicans typically having a strong advantage due to their majority status among voters. In terms of state politics, Jefferson City residents often vote along party lines with most favoring Republicans in recent state-level elections.
The political climate in Jefferson City, TN is moderately conservative.
Jefferson County, TN is very conservative. In Jefferson County, TN 19.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Jefferson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.0% to 19.7%.
Jefferson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Jefferson City, TN is moderately conservative.
Jefferson County, Tennessee is very conservative.
Morristown Metro Area is very conservative.
Tennessee 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.
Jefferson City, Tennessee: 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 Jefferson City, TN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 961 contributions totaling $38,360 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $40 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 826 contributions totaling $131,885 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $160 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)