Ripley, TN Voting


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The politics in Ripley, Tennessee can be described as a tight-knit community with strong local leadership. There is an emphasis on protecting and advocating for the citizens of the town. The mayor of Ripley is currently Bobby Joe Hill who has served since 2013 and been re-elected twice since then. The city has a small city council that handles most of the policy decisions for the area. These decisions include things like zoning laws, budgeting, and other important municipal matters. Ripley's political climate is largely determined by its location in rural western Tennessee where people are typically more conservative than other parts of the state. Local volunteers are often heavily involved in campaigns throughout the year to ensure their voices are heard at all levels of government.

The political climate in Ripley, TN is leaning conservative.

Lauderdale County, TN is strongly conservative. In Lauderdale County, TN 35.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.

In the last Presidential election, Lauderdale county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.3% to 35.6%.
Lauderdale county voted Republican in the last four Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in 2000 and 2004.


The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index

Ripley, TN is leaning conservative.


Lauderdale County, Tennessee is strongly 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.

Ripley, Tennessee: D d 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 Ripley, TN

In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 305 contributions totaling $120,900 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $396 per contribution.

In the last 4 years, there were 460 contributions totaling $126,095 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $274 per contribution.

(source: Federal Election Commission)

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