The city of Lavonia, GA is a small town in Franklin County with a population of approximately 3,000 residents. It is governed by the Mayor and City Council. The current mayor is C.L. Murray and the council members are JoAnn Richey, Kevin Chambers, Donnie Pitts, Ben Wooten and Brett Sanders. The city has been proactive in enacting policies to improve the quality of life for its citizens including initiatives in education, public safety and infrastructure improvements. Residents can participate in local politics through voting in elections or attending city council meetings to express their opinion on matters affecting the community. Although Lavonia is a small town with limited resources, it has implemented positive changes that benefit all citizens and made strides to ensure its continued success into the future.
The political climate in Zip 30553 (Lavonia, GA) is very conservative.
Franklin County, GA is very conservative. In Franklin County, GA 14.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 84.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Franklin county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 84.2% to 14.8%.
Franklin county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 30553 (Lavonia, GA) is very conservative.
Lavonia, Georgia is very conservative.
Franklin County, Georgia is very 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.
Lavonia, 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 30553 (Lavonia)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 49 contributions totaling $4,367 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $89 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 122 contributions totaling $11,432 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $94 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)