The Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC Metro Area is a coastal region located in the southeast United States. The area boasts a wonderful climate, beautiful beaches, and plenty of attractions that make it a popular tourist destination. Politically, the region is largely represented by Republicans in the state legislature. At the federal level, South Carolina US Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott are both Republicans. In terms of local politics, the city councils for each of the respective cities have their own political leanings; however, most actions taken on behalf of constituents tend to be bipartisan in nature. Overall, this metro area is a great place to live and work and has been well served by its elected officials for many years.
The political climate in Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach Metro Area is strongly conservative.
In Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach Metro Area 34.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 64.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area remained overwhelmingly Republican, 64.9% to 34.1%.
The Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach Metro Area is strongly conservative.
South Carolina is somewhat 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.
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, South 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 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 15,090 contributions totaling $641,107 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $42 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 5,531 contributions totaling $1,387,846 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $251 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)