The Political Climate in Mitchell County, NC is Very conservative.
In Mitchell County, NC 20.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Mitchell county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.4% to 20.7%.
Mitchell county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000
The BestPlaces Liberal/Conservative Index
Mitchell County, NC is Very 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.
Mitchell, 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 Mitchell County, NC
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 490 contributions totaling $35,081 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $72 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 118 contributions totaling $19,360 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $164 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)