Washington, AR County has a thriving political landscape that is home to a wide range of diverse perspectives and initiatives. The county is home to numerous significant political offices, including those representing the local congressional district at both the state and federal levels. The county also includes several major cities in which many significant local governing bodies are located. These include city councils, school boards, water and sewer districts, tax boards, planning commissions, and much more. Each of these local governing bodies serve to ensure that the citizens of Washington County have access to fair and equitable representation in all their respective districts. In addition to these locally elected officials, there are also several members of various national organizations with various missions that help to shape the political landscape in Washington County as well.
The political climate in Washington County, AR is leaning conservative.
In Washington County, AR 46.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Washington county remained Republican, 50.4% to 46.5%.
Washington county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Washington County, AR is leaning conservative.
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers Metro Area is moderately 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.
Washington, 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 Washington County, AR
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 12,348 contributions totaling $1,775,829 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $144 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,080 contributions totaling $761,385 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $366 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)