Meigs, GA is a small town located in Thomas County with a population of just under 600 people. The local politics in Meigs are shaped by the elected City Council members who serve four-year terms and manage the day-to-day operations of the city. The Mayor is also elected by the citizens and serves for two years. This year, there are five candidates vying for seats on the City Council: Sarah Collins, John Cooper, Tim Davenport, Anna Owens, and Mark Washington. Each candidate has different objectives to bring to Meigs and the citizens will decide who will best represent their interests and move the city forward. With such an important decision to be made, it is important that residents of Meigs do their research on each candidate and make their votes count when it comes time to elect new council members.
The political climate in Zip 31765 (Meigs, GA) is moderately conservative.
Thomas County, GA is moderately conservative. In Thomas County, GA 39.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Thomas county remained very strongly Republican, 59.3% to 39.8%.
Thomas county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 31765 (Meigs, GA) is moderately conservative.
Meigs, Georgia is moderately conservative.
Thomas County, Georgia is moderately conservative.
Thomasville Metro Area is moderately 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.
Meigs, 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 31765 (Meigs)
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 $850 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $283 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)