The Kinston, NC Metro Area has a rich political history. The city government is led by a Mayor and seven City Council members. Each member serves a four-year term and all council members are elected in non-partisan elections. The Mayor is elected in a citywide election while the Council Members are elected from individual districts. In addition to the local government, the Kinston area also sends representatives to both the North Carolina House and Senate as well as the United States House of Representatives and Senate. All of these representatives work together to ensure that local constituents have their needs met at both the state and federal level.
The political climate in Kinston Metro Area is leaning conservative.
In Kinston Metro Area 47.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 51.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Kinston metro area remained narrowly Republican, 51.4% to 47.9%.
The Kinston metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Kinston Metro Area is leaning conservative.
North Carolina is leaning 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.
Kinston, North Carolina: 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 Kinston Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 510 contributions totaling $71,821 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $141 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 322 contributions totaling $97,423 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $303 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)