Baxter County, Arkansas is a rural area with an estimated population of 40,000 people. The county is governed by a Board of County Commissioners that consists of five representatives who are elected to four-year terms. Each commissioner serves as the head of one or more departments and makes decisions on annual budgets, oversees the election process, and serve as liaisons to other local government entities. There are various appointive boards and commissions in Baxter County which are responsible for specific services such as planning and zoning, healthcare, education, transportation, law enforcement, emergency services and more. Additionally, there are state representatives from Baxter County who have been elected to serve at the state level. These state representatives are responsible for introducing legislation at the state level that will benefit their constituents in Baxter County.
The political climate in Baxter County, AR is very conservative.
In Baxter County, AR 22.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 75.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Baxter county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.4% to 22.1%.
Baxter county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Baxter County, AR is very conservative.
Mountain Home Metro Area is very conservative.
Arkansas 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.
Baxter, Arkansas: 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 Baxter County, AR
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 673 contributions totaling $40,553 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $60 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 684 contributions totaling $95,671 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $140 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)