In the
2012 presidential election,
Barack Obama won the entirety of Buncombe County with 55% of the vote. Obama visited the city on a few occasions.
[139] In April 2010, he and his family vacationed in the city.
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In the United States presidential election of 2016,
Hillary Clinton won 54% of the vote in Buncombe County and Donald Trump 40%, according to the North Carolina State Board of Elections. In 2020, Joe Biden won 59.74% of the vote in Buncombe County and Donald Trump 38.63%.
Asheville is a college town that, similar to many other American college towns, has seen its partisan lean since 2000 shift from Republican leaning to solidly Democratic — where
George W. Bush won the county by 11 points in 2000,
Joe Biden won the county by 21 points in 2020 — a 32-point swing in two decades.
In the
North Carolina Senate, most of Asheville is in the
49th district, represented by
Julie Mayfield (
D), and a small portion of the eastern part of the city is in the
46th district, represented by
Warren Daniel (R). In the
North Carolina House of Representatives, Asheville is split between the
114th,
115th, and
116th districts, represented by
J. Eric Ager (D),
Lindsey Prather (D), and
Caleb Rudow (D), respectively.
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