Madison County, NC is home to a diverse political landscape with representation from different political affiliations and levels of government. The county is part of the North Carolina House of Representatives District 117, which is currently represented by Rep. John Ager. At the state level, Madison County falls under the domain of the North Carolina Senate District 48, represented by Sen. Jim Davis. Madison County citizens also have representation in the United States House of Representatives through Representative Mark Meadows, who represents the 11th Congressional District of North Carolina. Elections are held regularly for local representatives on both the county and municipal levels in order to ensure that citizens have a voice in their local government decisions.
The political climate in Madison County, NC is moderately conservative.
In Madison County, NC 37.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 61.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Madison county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 61.0% to 37.5%.
Madison county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Madison County, NC is moderately conservative.
Asheville Metro Area is leaning liberal.
North Carolina is leaning conservative.
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.
Madison, North Carolina: 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 Madison County, NC
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,249 contributions totaling $78,391 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $35 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 101 contributions totaling $10,950 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $108 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)