Wheeler County, GA politics is an interesting and dynamic landscape. The county government is led by a board of commissioners who are responsible for making decisions that affect the area’s development, budgeting, and infrastructure. Elections are held every four years and all candidates must be residents of Wheeler County. Candidates run on platforms of economic growth, education reform, public safety initiatives, and environmental protection. Local ballot initiatives are also important in Wheeler County politics as they determine funding for specific projects or departments. Voters in Wheeler County take their political responsibilities seriously and participate in local elections to ensure that their voices are heard.
The political climate in Wheeler County, GA is very conservative.
In Wheeler County, GA 30.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 69.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Wheeler county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 69.3% to 30.2%.
Wheeler county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Wheeler County, GA is very conservative.
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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.
Wheeler, 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 Wheeler County, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3 contributions totaling $1,500 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $500 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 22 contributions totaling $6,126 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $278 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)