Lamar County, Georgia has a long political history and is home to many active citizens. The county is served by the Lamar County Board of Commissioners, who are tasked with governing the county and setting policies that will benefit its residents. On the local level, Lamar County is represented by several elected officials from a variety of political parties. These include representatives from both major political parties at all levels, such as State Representatives and Senators from each party. Additionally, there are also many municipal and county offices which are filled by local candidates each election cycle. These offices range from Sheriff to Tax Commissioner. All of these officials work together to ensure that Lamar County's needs are met in an effective manner.
The political climate in Lamar County, GA is very conservative.
In Lamar County, GA 29.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lamar county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.0% to 29.0%.
Lamar county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lamar County, GA is very conservative.
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta Metro Area is moderately liberal.
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.
Lamar, 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 Lamar County, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 141 contributions totaling $4,377 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $31 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 171 contributions totaling $27,227 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $159 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)