Piggott, Arkansas is a small town located in Clay County. Its population is estimated to be around 3,700 people. The town is governed by the mayor-council form of government. The current mayor is Robert Sikes and the city council members are William Stillwell, Michael Rorie, Tom Hays, Russell Vaden, David City and Edith Stewart. As a small town in rural Arkansas, most of the politics surrounding Piggott involve local issues such as education and infrastructure development. In recent years there have been several debates over increasing taxes for projects such as road maintenance and school improvement initiatives. Additionally, environmental protection laws are also discussed frequently in Piggott, with a focus on maintaining clean air and water quality in the region. Overall, the political environment of Piggott is focused on improving quality of life for local residents through sensible solutions to everyday problems.
The political climate in Zip 72454 (Piggott, AR) is strongly conservative.
Clay County, AR is very conservative. In Clay County, AR 18.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Clay county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.8% to 18.6%.
Clay county voted Republican in the last four Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in 2000 and 2004.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 72454 (Piggott, AR) is strongly conservative.
Piggott, Arkansas is strongly conservative.
Clay County, Arkansas is very conservative.
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Arkansas is strongly conservative.
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VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Piggott, Arkansas: D d 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 72454 (Piggott)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 184 contributions totaling $4,816 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $26 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 56 contributions totaling $6,964 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $124 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)