Sweet Water, Alabama is a small rural town located in Marengo County with a population of just over 800 people. Despite its size, Sweet Water has an active local political scene with many candidates running for various offices. Sweet Water residents have the opportunity to vote in elections for the local school board, mayor, city council, county commission and state legislature representatives. Every election cycle brings out a flurry of candidates hoping to gain office in Sweet Water. Candidates must be able to articulate their vision for Sweet Water and have plans for how they intend to serve the citizens of the town. The elected officials who represent Sweet Water are passionate about improving their community and work hard to make sure that the needs of its residents are met. Residents are encouraged to participate in politics in Sweet Water and get involved by attending candidate forums and voting on election day.
The political climate in Zip 36782 (Sweet Water, AL) is leaning conservative.
Marengo County, AL is leaning liberal. In Marengo County, AL 50.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 49.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Marengo county remained narrowly Democratic, 50.3% to 49.0%.
Marengo county voted Democratic in five of the last six Presidential elections (2004 went Republican).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 36782 (Sweet Water, AL) is leaning conservative.
Sweet Water, Alabama is leaning conservative.
Marengo County, Alabama is leaning liberal.
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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.
Sweet Water, Alabama: d r d d d d
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 36782 (Sweet Water)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 36 contributions totaling $430 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $12 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2 contributions totaling $434 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $217 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)