Bean Station, TN is a small town located in Grainger County in East Tennessee. It is a quiet community with a population of 1,878 as of 2010. As such, politics are not typically the center of attention. Despite its size, Bean Station has an active and engaged political scene, electing candidates for various roles in local government. The city is run by a mayor-council government, with the current Mayor being the honorable Robert Landon. There are five members of the council who have been elected to represent Bean Station’s residents on issues such as infrastructure improvements and public safety initiatives. Furthermore, Bean Station residents are represented at the state level by their state senators and representatives in Nashville. All these individuals work together to ensure that Bean Station’s residents receive quality services from their local government.
The political climate in Zip 37708 (Bean Station, TN) is very conservative.
Grainger County, TN is very conservative. In Grainger County, TN 14.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 84.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Grainger county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 84.5% to 14.5%.
Grainger county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 37708 (Bean Station, TN) is very conservative.
Bean Station, Tennessee is very conservative.
Grainger County, Tennessee is very conservative.
Knoxville Metro Area is strongly conservative.
Tennessee is moderately 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.
Bean Station, Tennessee: 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 zip 37708 (Bean Station)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 57 contributions totaling $32,164 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $564 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)