Nassau County, located on Florida's northeast coast, is a part of the Jacksonville Metropolitan Statistical Area and has a population of approximately 77,000 people. The county is governed by a five-member board of county commissioners who are elected to four-year terms in partisan elections. The commissioners serve as the Board of Directors of the county government and they appoint a county manager to manage the daily operations. Nassau County also has several other elected officials, such as the sheriff, tax collector, property appraiser and supervisor of elections. Elections for these positions take place during presidential election years and mid-term election years. Nassau County is home to many political parties including Democratic, Republican, Libertarian and Green Party candidates who campaign for their respective offices every election year.
The political climate in Nassau County, FL is very conservative.
In Nassau County, FL 26.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 72.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Nassau county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 72.2% to 26.4%.
Nassau county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Nassau County, FL is very conservative.
Jacksonville Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
Florida is leaning 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.
Nassau, Florida: 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 Nassau County, FL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,374 contributions totaling $259,905 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $59 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,183 contributions totaling $958,076 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $439 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)