Huntsville, AL is the largest city in northern Alabama and is home to a rich political landscape. As the county seat of Madison County, Huntsville has been consistently represented in all three branches of state government by elected officials. The current mayor of Huntsville is Tommy Battle who was re-elected in 2020 with 81% of the vote. Representing the residents of 35811 at the state level are Terri Collins (House District 12) and Sam Givhan (Senate District 7). At the federal level, Huntsville is represented by Rep. Mo Brooks in Congress. Overall, politics in 35811 Huntsville have seen strong support from citizens over recent years, as evidenced by consistent voter turnout and approval towards current representatives.
The political climate in Zip 35811 (Huntsville, AL) is leaning conservative.
Madison County, AL is leaning conservative. In Madison County, AL 44.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 52.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Madison county remained moderately Republican, 52.8% to 44.8%.
Madison county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 35811 (Huntsville, AL) is leaning conservative.
Huntsville, Alabama is leaning conservative.
Madison County, Alabama is leaning conservative.
Huntsville Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Huntsville, 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 35811 (Huntsville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 442 contributions totaling $46,119 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $104 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 424 contributions totaling $166,775 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $393 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)