The small town of Loch Lynn Heights, MD is governed by a mayor and six members of the Town Council. The Town Council is responsible for creating and passing local laws, approving budgets, and providing oversight for all municipal activities. Every two years, the citizens of Loch Lynn Heights have the opportunity to elect their mayor and Town Council members. To ensure fairness, candidates must be at least 18 years old and residents of the town for at least one year prior to the election. Local political issues range from budgeting and taxation to education and infrastructure. Despite its small size, Loch Lynn Heights takes pride in engaging citizens in political discourse on important local issues. Elections have high voter turnout due to interest in these local matters that directly affect the lives of those who live here.
The political climate in Loch Lynn Heights, MD is strongly conservative.
Garrett County, MD is very conservative. In Garrett County, MD 21.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 76.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Garrett county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 76.9% to 21.0%.
Garrett county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Loch Lynn Heights, MD is strongly conservative.
Garrett County, Maryland is very 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.
Loch Lynn Heights, 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 Loch Lynn Heights, MD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 250 contributions totaling $28,371 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $113 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 117 contributions totaling $89,814 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $768 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)