Union County is an important part of North Carolina's political landscape, and has a variety of local politicians who are actively participating in state-level politics. Local representatives include Senator Tommy Tucker, Representative Craig Horn, and Representative Dean Arp. These representatives are involved in various legislative initiatives to bring about positive change to the Union County community. Additionally, there are many special interest groups in the county that lobby for issues they feel strongly about. These groups often work with local legislators to ensure their interests are represented in Raleigh and Washington D.C.. All of this helps keep Union County as an important center for political activity throughout the state of North Carolina.
The political climate in Union County, NC is strongly conservative.
In Union County, NC 37.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 61.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Union county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 61.4% to 37.2%.
Union county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Union County, NC is strongly conservative.
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia 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.
Union, 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 Union County, NC
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,872 contributions totaling $467,021 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $163 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,294 contributions totaling $1,065,461 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $464 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)