Scott, AR County is a small rural community in the south-central part of Arkansas. Politically, the county leans heavily Republican. The majority of local political candidates hail from the Republican party and have staunch conservative values. Every election season there are fierce debates over issues such as taxes, gun control, and healthcare reform. As with most elections in Scott County, turnout is usually high at the polls with local citizens passionate about exercising their right to vote. Despite its small size, Scott County has had an outsized influence on the politics of Arkansas over the years.
The political climate in Scott County, AR is very conservative.
In Scott County, AR 13.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 83.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Scott county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 83.4% to 13.6%.
Scott county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Scott County, AR is very conservative.
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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.
Scott, 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 Scott County, AR
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 46 contributions totaling $2,844 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $62 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 75 contributions totaling $22,673 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $302 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)