Pittsylvania County is located in the central part of Virginia and is governed by a five-member board of supervisors. Each supervisor is elected from one of five districts for four-year terms. The board is responsible for setting the county budget, passing local ordinances and resolutions, controlling development, maintaining roads, and providing certain public services. The county also has an elected constitutional officer, Clerk of the Circuit Court, who serves a four-year term. This year’s elections will be held in November 2021 and will determine who will serve as Pittsylvania County's supervisor. The county also holds regular public meetings to discuss issues impacting the community such as taxes, zoning laws, infrastructure projects, and other matters of interest to local citizens. With such an important role in representing their communities' interests via their votes on the Board of Supervisors, it is vital that each member be selected carefully this coming election season so that they can carry out their duties responsibly and fairly.
The political climate in Pittsylvania County, VA is very conservative.
In Pittsylvania County, VA 29.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 69.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Pittsylvania county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 69.4% to 29.6%.
Pittsylvania county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Pittsylvania County, VA is very conservative.
Danville Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
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.
Pittsylvania, 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 Pittsylvania County, VA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 216 contributions totaling $14,859 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $69 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 245 contributions totaling $41,241 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $168 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)