The town of Chester Gap, VA is a small rural community in the county of Warren. While it doesn’t have its own local government or elected officials, the town does participate in state and national politics through their votes for representatives at the state and national levels. Although there are no local political candidates, many citizens take an active interest in the upcoming elections to ensure that they are voting for leaders who will represent their views and goals. Many residents get involved by attending rallies and working on campaigns for their preferred candidates. The people of Chester Gap believe in making their voices heard when it comes to politics so they can help shape the future for themselves and others living here.
The political climate in Chester Gap, VA is moderately conservative.
Rappahannock County, VA is somewhat conservative. In Rappahannock County, VA 42.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 56.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Rappahannock county remained strongly Republican, 56.5% to 42.1%.
Rappahannock county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Chester Gap, VA is moderately conservative.
Rappahannock County, Virginia is somewhat conservative.
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metro Area is very liberal.
Virginia is somewhat liberal.
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.
Chester Gap, Virginia: 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 Chester Gap, VA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,964 contributions totaling $265,291 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $90 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 981 contributions totaling $211,416 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $216 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)