The city of 28018 Bostic, NC is a small town located in Rutherford County. Although it has a population of less than 3,000 people, the city's political environment is an important part of its culture. The local government is a mayor-council form of government and the current mayor is Jackie Simons. The City Council consists of five council members who are elected by the citizens of Bostic to serve three-year terms. This allows for representatives from all across the community to have their voices heard in local decisions. Because of this representative form of governance, discussions about politics and current events are often ongoing within the city's walls and voting turnout in local elections tends to be higher than average.
The political climate in Zip 28018 (Bostic, NC) is very conservative.
Rutherford County, NC is very conservative. In Rutherford County, NC 26.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 72.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Rutherford county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 72.3% to 26.5%.
Rutherford county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 28018 (Bostic, NC) is very conservative.
Bostic, North Carolina is very conservative.
Rutherford County, North Carolina is very conservative.
Forest City Metro Area is very 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.
Bostic, 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 28018 (Bostic)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 61 contributions totaling $2,180 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $36 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 43 contributions totaling $8,824 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $205 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)