Hamilton County, Tennessee has a rich history of political representation. The county is represented in Congress by Republican Chuck Fleischmann and the state's Senate by Republican Bo Watson. At the local level, Hamilton County is governed by a nine-member Board of Commissioners that oversees the institutional operations of the county government. This board appoints a County Mayor to act as its chief executive officer, who in turn appoints department heads for the various county departments. The county also has several elected officials such as a Register of Deeds, Sheriff, Property Assessor and Trustee, as well as an elected District Attorney General and Public Defender. Hamilton County has been consistently represented by Republicans at all levels of government and there are many active grassroots organizations advocating for issues important to their constituents.
The political climate in Hamilton County, TN is somewhat conservative.
In Hamilton County, TN 44.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 53.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hamilton county remained moderately Republican, 53.8% to 44.1%.
Hamilton county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Hamilton County, TN is somewhat conservative.
Chattanooga Metro Area is strongly conservative.
Tennessee is moderately 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.
Hamilton, Tennessee: 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 Hamilton County, TN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11,880 contributions totaling $2,734,953 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $230 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 6,450 contributions totaling $3,480,992 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $540 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)