Cairo, Georgia is a small city located in Grady county with a population of around 9,500 people. The city has a mayor-council form of government, and the current Mayor is Booker Gainor. Each council member represents one of four wards in the city. While Cairo is predominantly Democratic, other parties are also represented in the local political landscape. Elections for mayor and council members take place every four years on the first Tuesday in November. Voters can register at City Hall or online before elections day. As part of their duties, the Mayor and City Council are responsible for setting annual budgets, setting laws to govern Cairo residents, and approving ordinances regarding all matters within the city limits.
The political climate in Zip 39827 (Cairo, GA) is strongly conservative.
Grady County, GA is strongly conservative. In Grady County, GA 33.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Grady county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.7% to 33.8%.
Grady county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 39827 (Cairo, GA) is strongly conservative.
Cairo, Georgia is strongly conservative.
Grady County, Georgia is strongly conservative.
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Georgia is leaning liberal.
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.
Cairo, Georgia: 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 39827 (Cairo)
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 $306 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $102 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)