Gainesville, Georgia is a city located in Hall County. It is home to about 39,000 people and is the county seat. Gainesville has a nonpartisan mayor-council form of government. The mayor acts as the chief executive officer while the council serves as the legislative body of the city. City council members are elected from each of four wards, with two at-large members representing the entire city. Each member is elected for a four-year term and eligible to seek re-election for a second consecutive term. The mayor and city council provide leadership by enacting policy initiatives through ordinances and resolutions that benefit local citizens. In addition, they provide oversight on all municipal operations and services provided by the city manager’s office. Gainesville also has an active political scene with many groups advocating for various causes in their community including education, environmental issues, economic development, social justice and public safety
The political climate in Zip 30504 (Gainesville, GA) is strongly conservative.
Hall County, GA is very conservative. In Hall County, GA 27.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Hall county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.8% to 27.6%.
Hall county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 30504 (Gainesville, GA) is strongly conservative.
Gainesville, Georgia is strongly conservative.
Hall County, Georgia is very conservative.
Gainesville Metro Area is very conservative.
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.
Gainesville, 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 30504 (Gainesville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 375 contributions totaling $26,926 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $72 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 248 contributions totaling $74,742 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $301 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)