Mountain Home, Idaho is located in Elmore County in the southwestern corner of the state. The city is served by a mayor-council format of government and has seven council members who are elected from four wards within the city limits. The mayor and council work together to ensure that the citizens of Mountain Home have access to quality services and resources. While there are no local candidates currently running for office, voters can still get involved by voting in municipal elections and attending town hall meetings. In addition, Mountain Home residents can stay informed about issues that affect their community by reading local newspapers or watching television news broadcasts. All of these activities help keep Mountain Home’s politics vibrant and engaged with its citizens.
The political climate in Mountain Home, ID is moderately conservative.
Elmore County, ID is very conservative. In Elmore County, ID 25.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Elmore county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.9% to 25.5%.
Elmore county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Mountain Home, ID is moderately conservative.
Elmore County, Idaho is very conservative.
Mountain Home Metro Area is very conservative.
Idaho is strongly 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.
Mountain Home, Idaho: R R R R 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 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 Mountain Home, ID
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 641 contributions totaling $18,755 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $29 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 141 contributions totaling $17,426 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $124 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)