Clarksville leans heavily Republican by roughly 36 points: about 32% of voters vote Democratic and 68% Republican. These figures are model estimates: New Hampshire did not have precinct-level voting records available for training, so the numbers above come from demographic and health features rather than local ground truth.
About 73% of adults in Clarksville typically vote, above the U.S. average of about 62%. Among adults in Clarksville, ~23% vote Democratic, ~49% Republican, and ~28% don't vote. The map below shows estimated turnout by block group.
How Clarksville compares
Among cities within 25 miles, Clarksville leans more Republican than 10 of 20 neighbors.
Clarksville runs about 39 points more Republican than New Hampshire as a whole. New Hampshire is roughly evenly split, and Clarksville sits clearly on the Republican side.
Why Clarksville leans the way it does
This analysis examined 14,881 data points per city to find what predicts political lean and turnout. The items below are a few correlations that stood out for Clarksville, not a ranked or complete list of what matters most.
Areas with a high white share and below-average college attainment vote Republican. In Clarksville, about 98% of residents are non-Hispanic white, about 25 points above the U.S. average of 72%; about 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree, about 25 points below the New Hampshire average of 38%. Clarksville runs against the grain of New Hampshire, a Republican-leaning outlier in a roughly evenly split state.
Population density and Republican lean
Places with low population density tend to lean Republican; Clarksville, NH sits in the bottom tenth nationally on this measure.
Why turnout in Clarksville looks the way it does
Areas with high high-school completion turn out at higher rates. About 98% of adults in Clarksville have completed high school, about 8 points above the U.S. average of 90%. Learn more about the findings and methodology on the political spectrum map.
Nearby Cities
- Stewartstown, NH R+39
- Stewartstown Hollow, NH R+39
- Beecher Falls, VT R+30
- Pittsburg, NH R+39
- West Stewartstown, NH R+40
- Canaan, VT R+30
- Colebrook, NH R+35
- Upper Kidderville, NH R+37
- Averill, VT R+29
Cities with Similar Populations
- Owenton, VA R+8
- Lucerne, WY R+70
- Hyampom, CA R+17
- Iconium, MO R+63
- McKees Beach, WA R+16
- Lamberton, NY R+15
- Curtin, OR R+30
- Chulafinnee, AL R+83
- Tacoma, FL R+12
- O'Brion, WV R+58
Sources and methodology
Precinct-level voting records used to fit the model come from New Hampshire Secretary of State, Elections Division, distributed by the Voting and Election Science Team. Demographic inputs come from the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates and the 2020 Decennial Census). Health and environmental inputs come from the CDC (PLACES and the Environmental Justice Index). Land cover comes from the USGS and EPA. Election-day and lead-up weather come from PRISM 4km daily grids and the NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network. Mail-voting and election-administration patterns come from the MIT Election Lab's Survey of the Performance of American Elections. Block-group crime detail comes from CrimeGrade. Internet data and modeling support provided by ISPreports.org.
Modeling and analysis by the BestNeighborhood data science team. NH did not have precinct-level voting records available for training, so the figures here come from extrapolation across demographic, health, and land-use features rather than local ground truth. Full methodology and findings: political spectrum map.
Methodology reviewed by the BestNeighborhood data team. Last updated May 2026.