The city of Hamilton, AL is part of Marion County and is governed by a Mayor-Council system. They are responsible for the overall direction of the city government, which includes setting policies, passing laws, adopting budgets, appointing boards and commissions, and hiring personnel. The current mayor is Mark Hall, who was elected in 2018. He serves alongside City Council Members Joe Dixon, Austin Langley, Jody Jones, Josh Vines, and Mary Povey. Together they strive to ensure that the citizens of Hamilton have access to basic services such as police protection, fire protection, sanitation services, water services and economic development initiatives. Through their efforts they hope to make Hamilton a safe place for families and a great place to do business.
The political climate in Zip 35570 (Hamilton, AL) is very conservative.
Marion County, AL is very conservative. In Marion County, AL 10.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 88.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Marion county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 88.4% to 10.6%.
Marion county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 35570 (Hamilton, AL) is very conservative.
Hamilton, Alabama is very conservative.
Marion County, Alabama is very conservative.
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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.
Hamilton, 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 35570 (Hamilton)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 106 contributions totaling $5,602 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $53 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 106 contributions totaling $33,332 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $314 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)