Macon, GA County is a vibrant and diverse community with a rich political history. Recently, there has been an increase in voter engagement, with more people becoming politically active in the area. In 2020, Macon County saw a record number of candidates for local offices, including several who ran as Democrats and Republicans. These candidates sought to represent their communities and worked hard to gain support from voters while focusing on important issues such as health care access, education funding, and economic development. Despite the heated competition between candidates, all shared a common goal of making Macon County the best place to live that it can be.
The political climate in Macon County, GA is moderately liberal.
In Macon County, GA 61.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 38.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Macon county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 61.3% to 38.2%.
Macon county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Macon County, GA is moderately liberal.
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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.
Macon, Georgia: D D D D D D
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 Macon County, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 42 contributions totaling $2,850 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $68 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 37 contributions totaling $6,286 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $170 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)