The city of Cookeville, TN 38501 is a culturally diverse and vibrant community located in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. The political landscape in the area reflects this diversity with representation from both major parties. At the local level, residents can vote for mayors and city council members who make decisions on behalf of their constituents. Most recently, Mayor Ricky Shelton was elected to serve as mayor of the city. The city council consists of five members including: Vice Mayor Melvin Lomax, Gary Garrett, Matt Fuson, Susan McBride, and Doris Hackney all carrying out their duties to represent the citizens of Cookeville. Local elections are held every four years with candidates running for these positions advocating for policies that are important to their constituency such as infrastructure improvements, economic development initiatives, public safety enhancements and quality education standards just to name a few. With each election cycle residents are encouraged to be engaged in the democratic process and voice their opinion on their preferred candidate or issue at hand.
The political climate in Zip 38501 (Cookeville, TN) is strongly conservative.
Putnam County, TN is very conservative. In Putnam County, TN 27.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Putnam county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.7% to 27.3%.
Putnam county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 38501 (Cookeville, TN) is strongly conservative.
Cookeville, Tennessee is strongly conservative.
Putnam County, Tennessee is very conservative.
Cookeville Metro Area is very 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.
Cookeville, 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 38501 (Cookeville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,501 contributions totaling $121,110 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $81 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 378 contributions totaling $279,764 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $740 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)