The Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR Metro Area is the home to a large array of political figures and interests. In the 2018 midterms, the area elected two democrats to represent them in the U.S. House of Representatives: French Hill and Clarke Tucker. Local politics are largely focused on improving public safety, strengthening local economies, increasing access to healthcare and education opportunities, promoting environmental stewardship, and providing for citizens with disabilities. Aside from members of congress, many city mayors and councilmembers work diligently to ensure that their communities have strong infrastructure and services that meet their needs. While there are differences in opinion amongst residents regarding which politicians or political parties should be most successful at achieving these goals, all agree that any investment in this region will have positive impacts on its future growth and development.
The political climate in Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metro Area is leaning conservative.
In Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metro Area 44.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 52.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro area remained moderately Republican, 52.5% to 44.8%.
The Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metro Area is leaning conservative.
Arkansas is strongly 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.
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, Arkansas: 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 29,185 contributions totaling $5,269,640 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $181 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 10,520 contributions totaling $26,138,423 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $2,485 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)