Knox County, Tennessee is a large county located in the eastern part of the state. Politically, the county is predominantly Republican with some Democratic representation. In terms of local political representation, Knox County has an elected District Attorney-General and Criminal Court Judge that serve as the county’s top legal advisors. In addition, there are several representatives in both houses of the Tennessee State Legislature who serve constituents in Knox County for both the state and national level. Each district within Knox County also elects its own representative to represent them in city hall. Finally, Knox County sends two senators to represent it at the Federal level in Washington D.C.. All of these elected officials work to ensure that residents of Knox County have their voices heard on both a local and national level.
The political climate in Knox County, TN is somewhat conservative.
In Knox County, TN 41.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 56.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Knox county remained very strongly Republican, 56.5% to 41.5%.
Knox county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Knox County, TN is somewhat conservative.
Knoxville 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.
Knox, 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 Knox County, TN
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 20,403 contributions totaling $2,775,614 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $136 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 6,521 contributions totaling $6,470,023 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $992 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)