The 70510 zip code of Abbeville, Louisiana is located in Vermilion Parish and is a part of the Acadian region. Politically, the area leans heavily towards conservative values and is predominantly Republican. The current representative from the 3rd district of Louisiana is Republican Clay Higgins, who was elected in 2016. Local elections are contested by a number of smaller parties including the Democratic Party, Green Party, Libertarian Party, and Independent candidates. No name local political candidates were specified as part of this task. Abbeville has seen its population remain relatively steady over the past two decades with more than 12,000 citizens residing there today.
The political climate in Zip 70510 (Abbeville, LA) is strongly conservative.
Vermilion County, LA is very conservative. In Vermilion County, LA 18.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 80.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Vermilion parish remained overwhelmingly Republican, 80.3% to 18.3%.
Vermilion county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 70510 (Abbeville, LA) is strongly conservative.
Abbeville, Louisiana is strongly conservative.
Vermilion County, Louisiana is very conservative.
Lafayette Metro Area is very conservative.
Louisiana is moderately conservative.
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.
Abbeville, Louisiana: 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 70510 (Abbeville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 63 contributions totaling $14,345 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $228 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 237 contributions totaling $228,067 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $962 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)