Politics in 28540 Jacksonville, NC are largely influenced by the local government. The City Council is composed of seven members who are elected to serve a four-year term. Most recently, Paul McDaniels, Joanne Murphy, Fields Dorminy, Mimi Barfield, Michael Fitzpatrick, Scott Coker and Clifton Taylor were elected to the Jacksonville City Council. These individuals work together to make important decisions related to the city's budgeting processes, policy making initiatives and improvement projects. The mayor is currently Sammy Phillips who was elected in 2017 and will serve until 2021. He has worked hard to ensure that all citizens have input into decision making and to make sure that their interests are represented in city policies. Additionally, there are several state representatives from this district who work at the state level on issues of importance for North Carolina residents. It is clear that politics in 28540 Jacksonville have an important impact on the city as well as its residents.
The political climate in Zip 28540 (Jacksonville, NC) is moderately conservative.
Onslow County, NC is strongly conservative. In Onslow County, NC 33.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Onslow county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.8% to 33.6%.
Onslow county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 28540 (Jacksonville, NC) is moderately conservative.
Jacksonville, North Carolina is moderately conservative.
Onslow County, North Carolina is strongly conservative.
Jacksonville Metro Area is strongly conservative.
North Carolina is leaning 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.
Jacksonville, North Carolina: 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 28540 (Jacksonville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 394 contributions totaling $31,247 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $79 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 352 contributions totaling $97,590 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $277 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)