The city of Auburn, Alabama is located in Lee County and is home to an estimated population of 65,516 according to the latest census data. The city is known as a college town and home to Auburn University. Politically, Auburn operates under a mayor-council form of government with the mayor and six council members serving four year terms. Local candidates for mayor are incumbent Mayor Ron Anders, Jason Wilson, and Donald W. Hughes. Candidates for the City Council include: District 1 – George Cottrell; District 2 – Mike Holmes; District 3 – Daniel R. Smith; District 4 – Robert J. Hightower; District 5 – Mary Lou Blalock; and At-Large position – Brandon Willingham. The current local political environment in Auburn is very active with several competitive races at stake this election season.
The political climate in Zip 36832 (Auburn, AL) is leaning conservative.
Lee County, AL is moderately conservative. In Lee County, AL 39.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lee county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 59.1% to 39.0%.
Lee county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 36832 (Auburn, AL) is leaning conservative.
Auburn, Alabama is leaning conservative.
Lee County, Alabama is moderately conservative.
Auburn-Opelika Metro Area is moderately conservative.
Alabama 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.
Auburn, Alabama: 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 36832 (Auburn)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 501 contributions totaling $27,458 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $55 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 127 contributions totaling $26,674 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $210 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)