Anderson County is located in South Carolina and is governed by a county council. The council consists of seven members, each elected from single-member districts. The chairperson of the council is elected at-large by the entire county. In addition to the council, there are other local political offices such as sheriff, coroner, auditor, treasurer and clerk of court. These individuals are all elected in partisan elections and serve four year terms. Anderson County also has several representatives in the state legislature which they elect every two years. Politics in Anderson County generally centers around issues related to education, development and infrastructure. There is also an emphasis on maintaining a good business climate while being mindful of environmental concerns. Local residents take pride in their community and actively participate in deciding who should represent them at the local or state levels of government.
The political climate in Anderson County, SC is very conservative.
In Anderson County, SC 28.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Anderson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.3% to 28.3%.
Anderson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Anderson County, SC is very conservative.
Greenville-Anderson Metro Area is strongly conservative.
South Carolina is somewhat 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.
Anderson, South 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 Anderson County, SC
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,380 contributions totaling $159,549 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $67 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,282 contributions totaling $246,622 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $192 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)