Paulding County, Georgia is located in the northwest corner of the state and has a population of over 148,000 people. The county government is led by five elected officials, including a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and three Commissioners. Each official is responsible for representing a particular district within the county. The county operates with governmental departments that take care of all aspects of community life such as public safety, infrastructure maintenance and development, education initiatives, public health services, and economic development. Local political candidates work hard to ensure that their constituents’ voices are heard through campaigning activities such as town hall meetings and door-to-door canvassing. In addition to being informed on local issues facing Paulding County citizens, potential voters also need to know who their candidates are in order to make an informed choice at election time.
The political climate in Paulding County, GA is strongly conservative.
In Paulding County, GA 34.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Paulding county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.8% to 34.8%.
Paulding county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Paulding County, GA is strongly 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.
Paulding, 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 Paulding County, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,014 contributions totaling $26,568 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $26 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 737 contributions totaling $99,672 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $135 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)