The small community of Kings Bay Base, GA is a unique place with its own set of politics and governing structures. Located in Camden County, the base is home to thousands of active duty and retired military personnel and their families. The local political scene is dominated by the Republican Party, which holds most of the positions in both county and state offices. Camden County's representative in the Georgia House of Representatives is Republican Rep. Jeff Jones while Senator Tyler Harper serves as the county鈥檚 representative in the Georgia State Senate. At the local level, there are three city council members elected from each ward for a total of nine elected officials who oversee day-to-day operations on Kings Bay Base. There are no local elections for mayor or other positions; instead, these are appointed by government bodies outside of Kings Bay Base. Despite this, there is still an active civic life within the base where residents can get involved in issues such as education and transportation infrastructure projects.
The political climate in Kings Bay Base, GA is leaning conservative.
Camden County, GA is strongly conservative. In Camden County, GA 33.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 64.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Camden county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 64.3% to 33.6%.
Camden county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Kings Bay Base, GA is leaning conservative.
Camden County, Georgia is strongly conservative.
St. Marys Metro Area is strongly conservative.
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.
Kings Bay Base, Georgia: 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 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 Kings Bay Base, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 440 contributions totaling $25,277 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $57 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 202 contributions totaling $27,651 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $137 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)