Politics in Cleveland, MS 38732 is shaped by the local government leaders in Bolivar County. The Board of Supervisors oversees the county's departments and services, while the County Sheriff is responsible for crime prevention and law enforcement. The City of Cleveland operates under a mayor-council form of government. The Mayor serves as the executive leader of the city and is elected to a four-year term. The City Council consists of five members who are elected at-large to serve overlapping four-year terms. In addition to these local representatives, residents are represented in state politics by their state senator and house representative, both of whom are based out of Jackson, Mississippi.
The political climate in Zip 38732 (Cleveland, MS) is moderately liberal.
Bolivar County, MS is strongly liberal. In Bolivar County, MS 64.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 34.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bolivar county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.8% to 34.0%.
Bolivar county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 38732 (Cleveland, MS) is moderately liberal.
Cleveland, Mississippi is moderately liberal.
Bolivar County, Mississippi is strongly liberal.
Cleveland Metro Area is strongly liberal.
Mississippi 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.
Cleveland, Mississippi: D 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 38732 (Cleveland)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 108 contributions totaling $8,983 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $83 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 154 contributions totaling $79,596 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $517 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)