27970 Roper, NC is located in Washington County and is a small rural town. In terms of politics, the town is represented by the Republican Party in Congress, representing North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District. The North Carolina General Assembly also has a representative from Roper serving as the House Representative for District 6. Furthermore, local municipal elections are held on a non-partisan basis and are conducted by the Town Council. As such, local political candidates running for office in Roper have to campaign with their constituents to get elected.
The political climate in Zip 27970 (Roper, NC) is leaning liberal.
Washington County, NC is somewhat liberal. In Washington County, NC 54.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Washington county remained moderately Democratic, 54.7% to 44.8%.
Washington county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 27970 (Roper, NC) is leaning liberal.
Roper, North Carolina is leaning liberal.
Washington County, North Carolina is somewhat liberal.
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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.
Roper, North Carolina: 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 27970 (Roper)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 14 contributions totaling $700 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $50 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 10 contributions totaling $5,829 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $583 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)