Fairfield County, South Carolina is a rural county located in the northern Midlands region of the state. It is home to 28,000 residents who take pride in their small-town values and enjoy the slower pace of life that living in a rural area offers. Politically speaking, Fairfield County leans Republican, and conservative values tend to be favored by most of its citizens. In recent years, local elections have seen a competitive race between Republicans and Democrats for seats on the county council as well as other positions such as sheriff or tax collector. Residents are engaged in these races and have plenty of debates about who should be filling these positions. The candidates are typically well known within their respective political parties and work hard during their campaigns to reach out to voters. Overall, politics in Fairfield County may differ from other parts of the state but it remains an important part of life here for the county's residents.
The political climate in Fairfield County, SC is moderately liberal.
In Fairfield County, SC 60.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 38.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Fairfield county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 60.8% to 38.1%.
Fairfield county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Fairfield County, SC is moderately liberal.
Columbia Metro Area is leaning liberal.
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.
Fairfield, South Carolina: D D D D D D
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 Fairfield County, SC
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 225 contributions totaling $27,060 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $120 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 187 contributions totaling $50,185 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $268 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)