The Pine Bluff Metro Area is located in southeastern Arkansas and is governed locally by the Pine Bluff Board of Directors. This board is responsible for making decisions that affect the local citizens, such as tax policies, land use regulations, and maintaining public safety. The board consists of five members who are elected to serve four-year terms. Local elections take place every two years when residents can choose their representatives for the Board of Directors. Issues that come up for debate include funding public projects, increasing economic development opportunities, and addressing environmental concerns in the community. Despite its small population size, the Metro Area remains an important political representation for Arkansas' sixth congressional district.
The political climate in Pine Bluff Metro Area is leaning liberal.
In Pine Bluff Metro Area 50.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 46.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Pine Bluff metro area remained narrowly Democratic, 50.8% to 46.6%.
The Pine Bluff metro area voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Pine Bluff Metro Area is leaning liberal.
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.
Pine Bluff, Arkansas: D D D D D d
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 Pine Bluff Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 502 contributions totaling $52,175 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $104 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 501 contributions totaling $193,842 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $387 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)