Shelby, Montana is a small town with a population of 1,500 people. It has a strong sense of community and civic pride that is reflected in its local politics. Shelby has an active City Council and Mayor that work to ensure the best interests of the residents are served. The city council meets regularly to discuss important topics such as budgets, infrastructure, development projects, and public safety initiatives. Local residents have the opportunity to vote for their representatives on the City Council at each election cycle. Each candidate provides their own vision for how they would like to move Shelby forward into the future. Residents also have the option of attending City Council meetings to provide input or ask questions about any issues they may have with current projects or policy decisions being made by local government officials.
The political climate in Shelby, MT is strongly conservative.
Toole County, MT is very conservative. In Toole County, MT 22.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 75.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Toole county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 75.3% to 22.0%.
Toole county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Shelby, MT is strongly conservative.
Toole County, Montana is very conservative.
Montana is moderately 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.
Shelby, Montana: 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 Shelby, MT
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 147 contributions totaling $6,803 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $46 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 71 contributions totaling $20,200 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $285 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)