Garden City, Georgia is a small town located in Chatham County, just south of Savannah. Garden City is known for its rich history and beautiful landscape. As with many towns in the region, politics plays an important role in Garden City. The town is represented by two state representatives: Rep. Carl Gilliard and Rep. Jasmine Clark, both Democrats. Both representatives oversee local issues such as education funding, public safety, economic development, and health care access. Voters in Garden City generally lean towards democrat candidates due to the majority of residents being democrats. There are also several community organizations that have created a voice for citizens to keep the local government accountable. These groups rally around issues like environmental protection, education reform, and support for the city’s diverse population. Additionally, there are several popular events that bring attention to local politics such as candidate forums and community meetings where citizens can make their voices heard through voting or voicing their opinions about current issues facing the city and its people.
The political climate in Zip 31408 (Garden City, GA) is somewhat liberal.
Chatham County, GA is moderately liberal. In Chatham County, GA 58.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 39.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Chatham county remained very strongly Democratic, 58.6% to 39.9%.
Chatham county voted Democratic in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Republican in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 31408 (Garden City, GA) is somewhat liberal.
Garden City, Georgia is somewhat liberal.
Chatham County, Georgia is moderately liberal.
Savannah Metro Area is leaning liberal.
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.
Garden City, Georgia: r d 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 31408 (Garden City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 47 contributions totaling $1,489 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $32 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 29 contributions totaling $27,813 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $959 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)