Hall County, Georgia is a vibrant community with a rich history and active politics. It is home to the cities of Gainesville, Flowery Branch, Oakwood and quite a few surrounding rural areas. The county is governed by a five-member Board of Commissioners who are responsible for setting the budget, adopting resolutions and ordinances and making important policy decisions. Each Commissioner represents one of five districts across Hall County. Elections for Commissioners are held every four years, with the most recent election taking place in 2020. The Board of Commission also oversees local elections for Mayor and City Council members in each city within Hall County. These elections are held every two years on odd numbered years and candidates need to live within the district they are representing in order to be eligible to run for office. A variety of political parties are represented throughout Hall County ranging from Democrats to Republicans as well as Libertarians and Independents.
The political climate in Hall County, GA is very conservative.
In Hall County, GA 27.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hall county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.8% to 27.6%.
Hall county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Hall County, GA is very conservative.
Gainesville Metro Area is very 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.
Hall, 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 Hall County, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,648 contributions totaling $199,609 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $75 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,347 contributions totaling $815,174 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $347 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)