Albany, GA is a city in the US state of Georgia and serves as the county seat for Dougherty County. It is home to a diverse population of around 77,000 people and is an important center for commerce and trade in the region. Politically, Albany has a strong mayor-council form of government with the mayor serving as the chief executive officer of the city. The mayor presides over the seven-member City Commission which consists of representatives from each ward in Albany. The mayor also appoints department heads and serves as a voting member of the council. The council is responsible for making policy decisions and enacting ordinances that govern the city's operations. In addition to local politics, Albany residents are actively engaged with state politics and their representatives at both the state house and senate level. Overall, political discourse in Albany is lively and vibrant with citizens regularly engaging in conversations about current issues on all levels of government.
The political climate in Albany, GA is strongly liberal.
Dougherty County, GA is very liberal. In Dougherty County, GA 69.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 29.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Dougherty county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 69.6% to 29.6%.
Dougherty county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Albany, GA is strongly liberal.
Dougherty County, Georgia is very liberal.
Albany Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Georgia is leaning liberal.
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.
Albany, Georgia: D D 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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Albany, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 979 contributions totaling $76,197 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $78 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 641 contributions totaling $144,031 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $225 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)