Coffee County is located in the southern part of Alabama and is governed by a five-member county commission. Each of the five are elected to serve four-year terms and are responsible for setting policy, adopting ordinances, levying taxes, approving budgets, and hiring county staff. Coffee County is also represented in both the Alabama Senate and House of Representatives by local politicians. The county has a long history of political involvement with individuals on both sides of the aisle making an effort to ensure that residents have their voices heard at all levels of government. Various initiatives have been taken to increase awareness around key issues such as education, economic development, law enforcement, and infrastructure needs throughout the county. As a result, Coffee County is an example of how citizens can work together to ensure that their collective needs are met in a timely manner.
The political climate in Coffee County, AL is very conservative.
In Coffee County, AL 22.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 75.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Coffee county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.9% to 22.8%.
Coffee county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Coffee County, AL is very conservative.
Enterprise Metro Area is very conservative.
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.
Coffee, 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 Coffee County, AL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 267 contributions totaling $24,463 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $92 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 595 contributions totaling $128,747 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $216 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)