Iva, SC is a small town located in Anderson County with a population of approximately 3,000 people. The town has a mayor-council form of government and two council members are elected from each ward. The current mayor is Thomas A. Johnson, III and the council members are Madelyn S. Blanton, Joseph A. Picklesimer, David D. Litza, Gerilee I. McCollum and Joshua B. Smith. Local politics in Iva are centered around debates on how best to manage the town's resources including its budget, infrastructure, land use ordinances and economic development initiatives. As the town grows and changes, local politicians continually strive to ensure that Iva remains a safe and prosperous place for its citizens to live and work in for generations to come.
The political climate in Zip 29655 (Iva, SC) is very conservative.
Anderson County, SC is very conservative. In Anderson County, SC 28.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Anderson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.3% to 28.3%.
Anderson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 29655 (Iva, SC) is very conservative.
Iva, South Carolina is very conservative.
Anderson County, South Carolina is very conservative.
Greenville-Anderson Metro Area is strongly conservative.
South Carolina is somewhat 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.
Iva, South 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 29655 (Iva)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 9 contributions totaling $626 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $70 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 39 contributions totaling $5,819 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $149 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)