Winston-Salem, located in Forsyth County, North Carolina, is the fifth most populous city in the state and home to a vibrant political landscape. The 27106 zip code of Winston-Salem is located in the southeastern portion of the city near Wake Forest University. Its current elected officials include US Representative Virginia Foxx, North Carolina Senators Gene McLaurin and Paul Newton, and North Carolina House Representatives Debra Conrad and Donny Lambeth. All are members of the Republican Party and strive to create a safe environment with fiscal responsibility. The area's local leaders have enacted legislation that has improved roads, developed economic opportunities for businesses, advocated for public safety initiatives like crime prevention programs and neighborhood watch groups, and continuously worked to better the quality of life for residents.
The political climate in Zip 27106 (Winston-Salem, NC) is somewhat liberal.
Forsyth County, NC is somewhat liberal. In Forsyth County, NC 56.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Forsyth county remained strongly Democratic, 56.2% to 42.3%.
Forsyth county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 27106 (Winston-Salem, NC) is somewhat liberal.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina is somewhat liberal.
Forsyth County, North Carolina is somewhat liberal.
Winston-Salem Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina: R r 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 27106 (Winston-Salem)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,388 contributions totaling $442,325 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $131 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,044 contributions totaling $861,980 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $826 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)