37722 Cosby, TN is a small town located in Cocke County. The local politics in 37722 Cosby, TN are managed by the Cocke County Commission, which consists of seven county commissioners and a county mayor who are all elected by the citizens. The Cocke County Commission is responsible for making decisions and enacting laws that affect the citizens of 37722 Cosby, TN and Cocke County as a whole. They are also responsible for providing services to the community including public safety, infrastructure development, environmental protection, economic development, and more. The Cocke County Commission works hard to ensure that the citizens of 37722 Cosby have access to quality services and a safe place to live.
The political climate in Zip 37722 (Cosby, TN) is very conservative.
Cocke County, TN is very conservative. In Cocke County, TN 17.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 81.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cocke county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 81.8% to 17.0%.
Cocke county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 37722 (Cosby, TN) is very conservative.
Cosby, Tennessee is very conservative.
Cocke County, Tennessee is very conservative.
Newport Metro Area is very conservative.
Tennessee is moderately 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.
Cosby, Tennessee: 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 37722 (Cosby)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 76 contributions totaling $14,140 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $186 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 44 contributions totaling $8,907 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $202 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)