Hendersonville, NC is located in Henderson County and has a population of approximately 13,000 people. The city is served by elected officials at the local, state, and federal level. At the local level, residents are represented on the Hendersonville City Council which consists of elected Mayor Barbara Volk and five council members. At the state level, the elected representative for Hendersonville is Senator Chuck Edwards from District 48 who is a member of the North Carolina General Assembly. At the federal level, residents are represented by Congressman Mark Meadows who serves North Carolina's 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. All three of these representatives advocate for their constituents in various ways such as introducing bills or amendments that would benefit their constituents or speaking out on current issues that affect them.
The political climate in Zip 28791 (Hendersonville, NC) is moderately conservative.
Henderson County, NC is moderately conservative. In Henderson County, NC 39.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 58.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Henderson county remained very strongly Republican, 58.6% to 39.8%.
Henderson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 28791 (Hendersonville, NC) is moderately conservative.
Hendersonville, North Carolina is moderately conservative.
Henderson County, North Carolina is moderately conservative.
Asheville Metro Area is leaning liberal.
North Carolina is leaning 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.
Hendersonville, North Carolina: 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 28791 (Hendersonville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,212 contributions totaling $56,074 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $46 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 488 contributions totaling $59,799 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $123 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)