Vandalia, OH is a city located in Montgomery County. The city has a mayor-council form of government and the current mayor is Arlene Setzer. The mayor and council members are elected by the citizens of Vandalia every four years. The council consists of seven members who represent different parts of the community. Council meetings are held on the first and third Monday each month at 7:00 p.m., and give residents an opportunity to express their opinions and bring up matters for discussion or decision making. Over the past few years, the political landscape in Vandalia has remained relatively stable with very few changes as far as local representatives go. Despite this stability, there are still many active political conversations happening in town halls, churches, homes, and other public forums throughout the year as citizens work to make sure their voices are heard when it comes to important decisions within their community.
The political climate in Vandalia, OH is leaning conservative.
Montgomery County, OH is leaning liberal. In Montgomery County, OH 50.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 47.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Montgomery county flipped narrowly Democratic, 50.2% to 47.9%.
Montgomery county flipped back to Democratic in the most recent Presidential election, after voting Republican in 2016.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Vandalia, OH is leaning conservative.
Montgomery County, Ohio is leaning liberal.
Ohio is leaning 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.
Vandalia, Ohio: d d d d r d
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 if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. 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 Vandalia, OH
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,336 contributions totaling $133,721 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 661 contributions totaling $1,315,478 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,990 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)