Garretts Mill, MD is a small town located in the rural Midwest of the United States. Politically, Garretts Mill is part of Maryland's 6th Congressional District and is represented by Congressman David Trone. In the state legislature, Garretts Mill is represented by Senator Richard Madaleno and Delegate Kirill Reznik on the Senate and House floors respectively. The mayor of Garretts Mill is Joe Bloomburg, who was elected to office in 2018. The town also has a five-member City Council with meetings held on the second Monday of each month. Local elections are held every two years for City Council seats as well as mayor. On the national level, Garretts Mill's residents have tended to lean towards Democratic candidates.
The political climate in Garretts Mill, MD is moderately conservative.
Washington County, MD is moderately conservative. In Washington County, MD 38.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Washington county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 59.3% to 38.4%.
Washington county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Garretts Mill, MD is moderately conservative.
Washington County, Maryland is moderately conservative.
Hagerstown-Martinsburg Metro Area is strongly conservative.
Maryland is very 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.
Garretts Mill, Maryland: 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 Garretts Mill, MD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 396 contributions totaling $42,563 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $107 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 61 contributions totaling $5,570 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $91 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)