The small town of Hohenwald, TN (zipcode 38462) is located in Lewis County, Tennessee and is part of the larger Nashville metropolitan area. Politically, the town leans conservatively with a Republican majority on the county commissioners board and a Republican mayor. The population of Hohenwald is relatively small with just under 4,500 residents, which means that local politics tends to be fairly tight knit within the community. This can be seen in the close-knit relationships between residents and their elected officials as well as in the number of campaigns that are run for local offices when they become available.
The political climate in Zip 38462 (Hohenwald, TN) is very conservative.
Lewis County, TN is very conservative. In Lewis County, TN 19.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 79.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lewis county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 79.8% to 19.1%.
Lewis county voted Republican in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 38462 (Hohenwald, TN) is very conservative.
Hohenwald, Tennessee is very conservative.
Lewis County, Tennessee is very conservative.
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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.
Hohenwald, Tennessee: d 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 38462 (Hohenwald)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 81 contributions totaling $5,611 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $69 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 100 contributions totaling $15,011 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $150 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)