Franklin County, Alabama is a rural county with a population of approximately 31,000 people. It is located in the Northwest corner of the state and is surrounded by Colbert, Lawrence, Lauderdale, and Winston counties. The county is governed by a five-member elected Board of County Commissioners. This board appoints a county administrator to manage the day-to-day operations of the county. The current chairman of the board is Thomas N. Braswell who was first elected in 2019. Additionally, there are seven other elected officials that make up the Franklin County government including: Sheriff Shannon Oliver; Revenue Commissioner Sandy Riddick; Coroner Edward Gunn; Probate Judge Tom Davidson; Circuit Clerk Lousie Sullivan; District Attorney Lauree Ann Abernathy; and Tax Assessor/Collector Janice Jones. All of these leaders are responsible for ensuring that the citizens of Franklin County have access to needed services and opportunities for growth and development.
The political climate in Franklin County, AL is very conservative.
In Franklin County, AL 16.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 82.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Franklin county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 82.5% to 16.6%.
Franklin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Franklin County, AL is very conservative.
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Alabama is strongly 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.
Franklin, Alabama: 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Franklin County, AL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 130 contributions totaling $31,940 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $246 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 115 contributions totaling $23,564 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $205 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)