Sampson County, North Carolina is a rural county located in the eastern part of the state, and has a population of 63,431 inhabitants. The county is governed by a five-member Board of Commissioners elected on partisan ballots. The board operates under the direction of a chairman, who is also elected by partisan ballots. It’s composed of four other members as well as its own County Manager. The Board meets twice each month to discuss topics that affect citizens in Sampson County, such as budgets, taxes, infrastructure improvements and services that benefit all residents. The county also has other elected offices such as sheriff, register of deeds and clerk of court that are partisanly elected every four years. Additionally, Sampson County elects representatives to the North Carolina House and Senate who are responsible for representing the interests of their constituents at the state level. All citizens have an opportunity to voice their opinions or concerns during town hall type meetings throughout the year along with public comment periods prior to formal voting by elected officials or commissioners.
The political climate in Sampson County, NC is moderately conservative.
In Sampson County, NC 38.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sampson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.8% to 38.3%.
Sampson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sampson County, NC is moderately conservative.
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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.
Sampson, 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 Sampson County, NC
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 193 contributions totaling $23,319 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $121 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 322 contributions totaling $242,924 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $754 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)