Poll: City voters split on monument removal, County voters want it to stay

According to a recent poll conducted by The Political Matrix, city of Pensacola voters are divided on whether the Confederate monument in the city’s Lee Square should be removed.

The two districts where over half the respondents believe the statue should stay are District 3, 54.1%, and District 4, 52.6%.   Districts 3 and 4 only have 177 and 170 Black voters, respectively – less than 3% each.

The two districts most supportive of removing the monument are District 6 (48.5%) and District 2 (47.1%). District 6 has 2,270 Black voters, District 2  915.

The districts that had the most respondents that need more information are District 7 (22.9%) and District 5 (18.2%).

City of Pensacola 

Do you think Confederate monument in downtown Pensacola should be removed?

	Responses	%
Yes	103	42%
No	111	45%
Need more info	34	14%
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Wu	Myers	Terhaar	Moore	Jerralds	Hill	Cannada-Wynn
Yes	36.8%	47.1%	40.5%	34.2%	42.4%	48.5%	42.9%
No	47.4%	41.2%	54.1%	52.6%	39.4%	42.4%	34.3%
Need more info	15.8%	11.8%	5.4%	13.2%	18.2%	9.1%	22.9%

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Escambia County – Outside City Limits

Voters outside the city limits clearly want the city to keep the Confederate monument.

Do you think Confederate monument in downtown Pensacola should be removed?

	Response	%
Yes	184	31%
No	368	61%
Need more info	48	8%

The districts that have no city voters overwhelmingly oppose removing the statue. Black voters make up 15.7% of Bergosh’s district and 12.2% of Barry’s district.

	Bergosh	Barry
Yes	30.9%	22.0%
No	64.0%	69.5%
Need more info	5.1%	8.5%

 

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Escambia County – City/County Voters

Portions of District 2, 3 and 4 are inside the city limits.  District 3 – with 49.4% Black voters – is the only district where more than half agreed with removing the monument.

Do you think Confederate monument in downtown Pensacola should be removed?

	2	3	4
	Underhill	May	Bender
Yes	27.7%	50.7%	36.8%
No	61.9%	37.0%	51.5%
Need more info	10.3%	12.3%	11.7%

 

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Escambia County – Combined

The older the voter the more likely they oppose removing the Confederate monument.

Age	18-21	22-34	35-44	45+64	65+
Yes	52.3%	48.7%	47.6%	31.4%	22.5%
No	34.1%	39.3%	41.5%	60.3%	65.6%
Need more info	13.6%	12.0%	11.0%	8.4%	9.0%

Two-thirds of White voters oppose removal; Black voters favor removal by a larger percentage; and other minorities are split.

Race	White	Black	Other
Yes	24.4%	78.1%	45.7%
No	66.8%	8.6%	42.9%
Need more info	8.7%	13.3%	11.4%

Republican voters have few doubts about keeping the monument.

Party	Dems	GOPÂ	NPA
Yes	70.6%	9.6%	37.5%
No	20.1%	81.0%	50.0%
Need more info	9.2%	9.4%	12.5%

 

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