Lake City, TN is located in the southeastern United States and is a small rural city. The local government is run by Mayor Thomas J. Dudley and the City Council of Lake City. The Council consists of three members who are elected by the citizens of 37769 Lake City every four years. The Town Manager is responsible for implementing all policies passed by the Council. The people of 37769 Lake City take pride in their democracy and have a high level of civic engagement when it comes to voting and local politics. Every four years there are numerous candidates vying for position on the town council, each with different ideas for how to best serve the community. Through their civic engagement, the citizens of 37769 Lake City are able to ensure that their opinions are heard by their representative government officials at both the local and state levels.
The political climate in Zip 37769 (Lake City, TN) is strongly conservative.
Anderson County, TN is very conservative. In Anderson County, TN 33.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 65.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Anderson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 65.2% to 33.0%.
Anderson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 37769 (Lake City, TN) is strongly conservative.
Lake City, Tennessee is strongly conservative.
Anderson County, Tennessee is very conservative.
Knoxville Metro Area is strongly 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.
Lake City, 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 37769 (Lake City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7 contributions totaling $330 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $47 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 18 contributions totaling $4,485 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $249 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)