Brooks, GA county is located in the south-west corner of Georgia and is governed by a Board of Commissioners. The Board consists of five members who are elected at-large by the citizens of Brooks and serve four-year terms. The current board chairman is Marty Martin, with commissioners Larry Deriso, Jerry Harris, Barry Reynolds, and Willie Thomas also serving on the board. The county is represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman Sanford Bishop (GA–2). On the state level, Brooks is represented in the Senate by Senators Bill Heath (R) and Ed Harbison (D), as well as in the House of Representatives by Doug Holt (R) and Gerald Greene (D). These representatives are all up for election every two years. Local political candidates are usually nominated during primary elections which occur every two years in May or June, followed by general elections during November or December.
The political climate in Brooks County, GA is moderately conservative.
In Brooks County, GA 39.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Brooks county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.0% to 39.3%.
Brooks county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Brooks County, GA is moderately conservative.
Valdosta Metro Area is moderately conservative.
Georgia is leaning liberal.
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.
Brooks, Georgia: 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 Brooks County, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 110 contributions totaling $3,974 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $36 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 94 contributions totaling $48,218 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $513 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)