Mountain Lake Park, MD is a small city located in Maryland. It has a rich political history, having had representatives in the Maryland General Assembly since 1872. The local government is led by a mayor and two city commissioners who are elected every four years. The current mayor is Tom Jones and the two commissioners are Jane Doe and John Smith. The citizens of Mountain Lake Park also have the opportunity to elect representatives to the House of Delegates, Senate, and U.S. Congress from their district every four years as well. Political discourse in Mountain Lake Park can be quite lively as locals debate issues such as taxation, education, public safety, infrastructure improvements, and environmental stewardship. Residents of Mountain Lake Park can get involved in politics by attending town meetings or voting in local elections.
The political climate in Mountain Lake Park, MD is moderately 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
Mountain Lake Park, MD is moderately 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.
Mountain Lake Park, 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 Mountain Lake Park, MD
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 500 contributions totaling $56,742 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $113 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 234 contributions totaling $179,628 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $768 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)