Huntingdon, Tennessee is a small town located in Carroll County. Although the population of Huntingdon is not large, it has an active and engaged local politics scene. The mayor of Huntingdon is Ed Price, who was elected to his first term in 2002 and re-elected each time since then due to his strong commitment to the community. There are two city council members, Ashley Walker and Joe Jones, both of whom have served on the council since 2011 and are well respected by their constituents. Huntingdon residents take their local politics seriously, as evidenced by the good voter turnout for both mayoral and council elections. In addition to voting for politicians at the local level, citizens also actively participate in debates about various issues that affect the town such as taxes, education funding and zoning laws.
The political climate in Zip 38344 (Huntingdon, TN) is very conservative.
Carroll County, TN is very conservative. In Carroll County, TN 21.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 77.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Carroll county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 77.3% to 21.5%.
Carroll county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 38344 (Huntingdon, TN) is very conservative.
Huntingdon, Tennessee is very conservative.
Carroll County, Tennessee is very conservative.
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Tennessee is moderately conservative.
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VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Huntingdon, 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 38344 (Huntingdon)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 40 contributions totaling $7,073 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $177 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 94 contributions totaling $51,275 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $545 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)