The politics in 28786 Waynesville, NC center around the local municipal government, as well as North Carolina state legislation. The town is represented in the North Carolina House of Representatives by Michele Presnell and Mike Clampitt. Locally, the town's mayor is Gavin Brown and the board of aldermen consists of Chuck Dickson, Tim Corriher, Julia Freeman-Woolpert, Steve West, and LeRoy Roberson. Waynesville is home to many volunteer organizations that are quite active in local politics and work closely with the town’s government officials. Additionally, there are several political action committees throughout the community that host events such as candidate forums and debates to inform citizens about important issues on a local level.
The political climate in Zip 28786 (Waynesville, NC) is moderately conservative.
Haywood County, NC is strongly conservative. In Haywood County, NC 36.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 62.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Haywood county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 62.5% to 36.0%.
Haywood county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 28786 (Waynesville, NC) is moderately conservative.
Waynesville, North Carolina is moderately conservative.
Haywood County, North Carolina is strongly conservative.
Asheville Metro Area is leaning liberal.
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.
Waynesville, 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 28786 (Waynesville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,008 contributions totaling $102,741 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $102 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 253 contributions totaling $42,319 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $167 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)