The Oshkosh-Neenah Metropolitan Area in Wisconsin is a multifaceted community home to over 170,000 people. The area is represented by several local politicians who serve both municipal and state offices. At the municipal level, Neenah has a mayor and a city council while Oshkosh has an elected mayor as well as a City Council and County Board of Supervisors. These officials provide leadership for local services such as police, firefighting, taxation policies, infrastructure maintenance and more. On the state level, residents of the Oshkosh-Neenah Metro Area are represented by two U.S. House Representatives and two U.S. Senators who work to protect the interests of the area at a federal level. Each election year brings new faces to these roles as people vie for spots on their respective boards or councils seeking to make a difference in their community through policy changes or improved service delivery.
The political climate in Oshkosh-Neenah Metro Area is leaning conservative.
In Oshkosh-Neenah Metro Area 46.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 50.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Oshkosh-Neenah metro area remained narrowly Republican, 50.8% to 46.9%.
The Oshkosh-Neenah metro area voted Republican in four of the six previous Presidential elections (2008 and 2012 went Democratic).
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Oshkosh-Neenah Metro Area is leaning conservative.
Wisconsin is leaning liberal.
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.
Oshkosh-Neenah, Wisconsin: r r D d 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Oshkosh-Neenah Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7,910 contributions totaling $610,484 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $77 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,404 contributions totaling $1,151,538 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $338 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)