Accomack County, located in Virginia's Eastern Shore region, is a rural community that is often overlooked in the political sphere. Despite its small population size, the county has an active local government and many citizens who are passionate about their civic duties. The Board of Supervisors is the governing body for Accomack County and is currently made up of seven elected officials who serve four-year terms. In recent years, elections have been competitive and many candidates have come forward to represent Accomack County’s interests in areas such as economic development, education reform and environmental protection. There are also many grassroots organizations dedicated to advocating for local policies that would benefit the residents of Accomack County. Although it may be easy to overlook this county due to its small size, the people of Accomack take politics seriously and they work hard to ensure that their voices are heard both locally and on a larger scale.
The political climate in Accomack County, VA is somewhat conservative.
In Accomack County, VA 44.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 54.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Accomack county remained moderately Republican, 54.1% to 44.7%.
Accomack county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Accomack County, VA is somewhat conservative.
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Virginia is somewhat liberal.
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.
Accomack, Virginia: 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 Accomack County, VA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 824 contributions totaling $62,141 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $75 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 280 contributions totaling $35,285 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $126 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)