Cleveland, AR County is governed by a board of supervisors which is responsible for providing local services and overseeing the interests of its citizens. The county's leadership works together to ensure that the community is safe and prosperous for all of its residents. The supervisors are elected on a nonpartisan basis by the people in the county, who strive to make sure that their local representatives have their best interests at heart. Additionally, Cleveland has a vibrant political scene with plenty of debate about topics from gun control to health care reform. The county also regularly hosts events such as town hall meetings so that citizens can discuss issues and voice their opinions in an open forum setting.
The political climate in Cleveland County, AR is very conservative.
In Cleveland County, AR 18.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cleveland county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.6% to 18.1%.
Cleveland county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Cleveland County, AR is very conservative.
Pine Bluff Metro Area is leaning liberal.
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.
Cleveland, 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 Cleveland County, AR
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 27 contributions totaling $345 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $13 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 27 contributions totaling $11,687 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $433 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)