In 72951 Ratcliff, AR, the politics are largely based in county-level decisions. The local government consists of an elected county judge who oversees all departments within the county. In addition to the county judge, a quorum court is made up of justices of the peace elected from each district in the county and provides legislative oversight for financial matters. Ratcliff also has representatives in both chambers of the Arkansas General Assembly and a member of Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives. Local political candidates are typically chosen from within the community and have a long history of representing their constituents with pride and honor.
The political climate in Zip 72951 (Ratcliff, AR) is very conservative.
Logan County, AR is very conservative. In Logan County, AR 18.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Logan county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.3% to 18.8%.
Logan county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 72951 (Ratcliff, AR) is very conservative.
Ratcliff, Arkansas is very conservative.
Logan County, Arkansas is very conservative.
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Arkansas 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.
Ratcliff, Arkansas: 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 72951 (Ratcliff)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 0 contributions totaling $0 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $0 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3 contributions totaling $283 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $94 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)