Clarks Hill, South Carolina is a small town located in Aiken County, with an estimated population of about 250 people. It is a rural community comprised mostly of blue-collar workers and retirees. The town is served by several locally elected officials including the mayor, council members, and school board members. These officials work together to ensure that the needs of the community are met and that the town's resources are allocated in an equitable manner. They also advocate on behalf of Clarks Hill residents to local, state, and federal governments for matters related to infrastructure improvements, schools/education funding, public safety concerns, and other issues of importance to their constituents. Despite its small size, the citizens of Clarks Hill take great pride in their politics and actively participate in local elections as well as engaging in dialogue with their elected representatives.
The political climate in Zip 29821 (Clarks Hill, SC) is somewhat conservative.
McCormick County, SC is leaning conservative. In McCormick County, SC 47.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 51.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 0.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, McCormick county remained Republican, 51.9% to 47.2%.
McCormick county voted Republican in the two most recent Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in the previous four.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 29821 (Clarks Hill, SC) is somewhat conservative.
Clarks Hill, South Carolina is somewhat conservative.
McCormick County, South Carolina is leaning conservative.
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South Carolina is somewhat 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.
Clarks Hill, South Carolina: d d d d 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 29821 (Clarks Hill)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 88 contributions totaling $2,169 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $25 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 8 contributions totaling $8,900 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,113 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)