Burke County, Georgia is a rural area located in east central Georgia. It is governed by a Board of Commissioners who are elected to four-year terms. The county is overseen by the Burke County Board of Elections and Registration, which is responsible for running elections and keeping voter registration records. In addition to the Board of Commissioners, Burke County has a County Sheriff, State Court Judges, District Attorney, Probate Judge, Clerk of Court, Magistrate Court Judges, and Coroner. All local political candidates must be registered with the Burke County Board of Elections and Registration in order to appear on ballots in local elections. Local campaigns are run by local party affiliates and volunteers from the community who support their chosen candidates. The county seeks to ensure fair election processes while also serving its citizens’ needs for representation through responsible leadership.
The political climate in Burke County, GA is leaning conservative.
In Burke County, GA 48.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Burke county flipped narrowly Republican, 50.5% to 48.7%.
Burke county flipped Republican in most recent Presidential election (2004 also went Republican).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Burke County, GA is leaning conservative.
Augusta-Richmond County Metro Area is leaning 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.
Burke, Georgia: d r d D d 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 Burke County, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 27 contributions totaling $4,577 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $170 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 205 contributions totaling $42,337 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $207 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)